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Aleš Svoboda (2 April 1941 in
Aleš Svoboda (2 April 1941 in Zlín
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– 9 January 2010 in Opava
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) was a Czech
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linguist
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, university professor, and a prominent representative of the Prague School of linguistics.
Biography
He initially studied music and clarinet at Brno conservatoire, but later his keen interest in languages brought him to study English, German and Czech at the Faculty of Arts ofMasaryk University
Masaryk University (MU) ( cs, Masarykova univerzita; la, Universitas Masarykiana Brunensis) is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno as the seco ...
. In 1970 he became an Assistant Professor of the Department of English and American Studies at the faculty. He was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at Charles University in Prague in 1981 and to Full Professor at Masaryk University in Brno in 1992. Apart from Masaryk University in Brno, he also taught at Silesian University in Opava and at the University of Ostrava (both in the Czech Republic), and at University of Prešov (Slovakia).
He was a disciple and close collaborator of Professor Jan Firbas
Jan Firbas (25 March 1921, Brno – 5 May 2000, Brno), was a Czech linguist and a prominent representative of the Prague School of linguistics.
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Born in Brno, in then Czechoslovakia, he studied English, German and philosophy at the Facul ...
and together with him a lead investigator of a theory of Information Structure
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of language called Functional Sentence Perspective
In linguistics, functional sentence perspective (FSP) is a theory describing the information structure of the sentence and language communication in general. It has been developed in the tradition of the Prague School of Functional and Structural ...
(FSP), inspired by the work of Vilém Mathesius
Vilém Mathesius (, 3 August 1882 – 12 April 1945) was a Czech linguist, literary historian and co-founder of the Prague Linguistic Circle. He is considered one of the founders of structural functionalism in linguistics.
Mathesius was the edit ...
. He wrote many papers on the topic, two monographs and 50 encyclopedic entries describing FSP.In ''Encyklopedický slovník češtiny'' ncyclopedic Dictionary of the Czech Language Prague: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2002. His most important contribution to the development of the theory of Functional Sentence Perspective was its application to the subclausal level.
See also
*Functional sentence perspective
In linguistics, functional sentence perspective (FSP) is a theory describing the information structure of the sentence and language communication in general. It has been developed in the tradition of the Prague School of Functional and Structural ...
* Topic-comment
In linguistics, the topic, or theme, of a sentence is what is being talked about, and the comment (rheme or focus) is what is being said about the topic. This division into old vs. new content is called information structure. It is generally a ...
* Vilém Mathesius
Vilém Mathesius (, 3 August 1882 – 12 April 1945) was a Czech linguist, literary historian and co-founder of the Prague Linguistic Circle. He is considered one of the founders of structural functionalism in linguistics.
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Notes
References
* Černý, M: “In Memory of Professor Aleš Svoboda”, ''Topics in Linguistics'' 4, 2009, p. 4. Available from World Wide Web: https://web.archive.org/web/20120616235657/http://www.kaa.ff.ukf.sk/topics/issue4.pdf * Drápela, M.: “Bibliography of Professor Aleš Svoboda”, ''philologica.net'' nline 2014-01-13 ited 2014-01-15 Available from World Wide Web: http://philologica.net/studia/20140113000001.htm * Kavka, S. J.: “Foreword” IN M. Černý, J. Chamonikolasová, S. J. Kavka and E. Klímová (Eds.): ''New Chapters in Functional Syntax'', Ostrava: University of Ostrava, 2011, pp. 7–8 {{DEFAULTSORT:Svoboda, Ales Linguists from the Czech Republic 1941 births 2010 deaths Masaryk University alumni