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Functional linguistics

Overview

approaches to the study of language that see functionality of language and its elements to be the key to understanding linguistic processes and structures

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Functional linguistics

• Ferdinand de Saussure

Related ideas

• Prague linguistic circle
• Ferdinand de Saussure
• Organicism
• Language
• Predicate (grammar)
• Sociology
• Structural linguistics
• Object (grammar)
• Louis Hjelmslev
• Natural selection
• Linguistics
• Phoneme
• Process philosophy
• Roman Jakobson
• Soviet Union
• Michel Weber
• Structuralism
• Semantics
• Semiotics
• Nikolai Trubetzkoy
• Philosophy of science
• Émile Durkheim
• Neo-Darwinism
• Alfred North Whitehead

Place in the tradition

Part of Structuralism.

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