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Is Understanding a Miracle?

Author(s): Irena Vaňková, Alena Macurová
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro českou literaturu
Keywords: structuralism; cognitive linguistics; hermeneutics; language

Summary/Abstract: An essay on the relationship between language (mother tongue) and the human subject and its existence. It develops ideas of the Prague School of structural literary analysis (in particular, those of Bohumil Trnka, Vladimír Skalička, and Jan Mukařovský), cognitive linguistics, and hermeneutics, employing the concept of cultural competence, including criticism of its state in contemporary Czech society.

  • Issue Year: 54/2006
  • Issue No: 2-3
  • Page Range: 113-121
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Czech