Prague school theories of standard language

[Keith Langston]

Dear SEELANGers,

A number of linguists who have written about Prague School approaches  
to language standardization/language culture refer to the concept of  
the "autonomy" of the standard language. I have been searching  
through writings by Havránek, Mathesius, and others, and while they  
obviously treat the standard language as a distinct variety, I  
haven't been able to find any explicit statement about "autonomy" as  
a general characteristic of standard languages. It appears that some  
of these linguists writing about the Prague School are using  
"autonomy" to mean slightly different things, so I was hoping to find  
the original source of this concept. Can anyone direct me to a  
reference?

Thanks,

Keith Langston

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Keith Langston
Associate Professor of Slavic Studies and Linguistics
Undergraduate Advisor
Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Studies
University of Georgia
201 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Athens, GA 30602
706.542.2448, fax 706.583.0349




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