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Podcast episode 24: Interview with Lorenzo Cigana on the Copenhagen Circle

Louis Hjelmslev

In this interview, we talk to Lorenzo Cigana about Louis Hjelmslev and the Copenhagen Linguistic Circle.

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Podcast episode 23: Interview with Noam Chomsky on the beginnings of generative grammar

Noam Chomsky

In this interview, we talk to Noam Chomsky about the intellectual environment in which generative grammar emerged.

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Podcast episode 22: Interview with Christopher Hutton on linguistics under National Socialism

Völkerkarte von Mitteleuropa

In this interview, we talk to Christopher Hutton about linguistic scholarship under National Socialism and how this relates to linguistics today.

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Podcast episode 21: Karl BĂŒhler’s Organon model and the Prague Circle

Organon model

In this episode, we look at psychologist Karl BĂŒhler’s (1879–1963) Organon model of communication and observe its influence on the linguists Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890–1938) and Roman Jakobson (1896–1982), who were associated with the Prague Circle.

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Podcast episode 20: Interview with Jacqueline LĂ©on on Firth, Malinowski and the London School

In this interview, we continue the theme of the previous episode and talk to Jacqueline LĂ©on about John Rupert Firth (1890–1960), BronisƂaw Malinowski (1884–1942) and the London School.

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Podcast episode 19: Meaning and British linguistics – Firth, Malinowski and the context of situation

Map of the Trobriand Islands

In this episode, we look at the central role the analysis of meaning played in British linguistics in the first half of the twentieth century. We focus on the work of John Rupert Firth (1890–1960) and BronisƂaw Malinowski (1884–1942) and

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Podcast episode 18: Interview with H. Walter Schmitz on Victoria Lady Welby

Portrait of Victoria Lady Welby

In this interview, we talk to H. Walter Schmitz about pioneer of semiotics Victoria Lady Welby.

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Podcast episode 17: Philipp Wegener and the beginnings of functionalism

Untersuchungen ĂŒber die Grundfragen des Sprachlebens

In this episode, we take a step back to explore the earliest beginnings of functional linguistics as represented by the work of Philipp Wegener.

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Podcast episode 16: Interview with ChloĂ© Laplantine on Émile Benveniste

In this episode, we talk to ChloĂ© Laplantine about the life and work of French structuralist Émile Benveniste.

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Podcast episode 15: Roman Jakobson, Prague Circle structuralism and phonology

Picasso: Girl with a Mandolin

In this episode, we enter the age of classical structuralism by exploring the phonological research of Roman Jakobson and his colleague Nikolai Trubetzkoy undertaken within the Prague Linguistic Circle.

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