The Prague School at the “Crossroads of Cultures” (On Multilingualism in the Correspondence of the Prague Linguistic Circle)

Abstract

The article discusses the  multilingual correspondence of  the  Prague Linguistic Circle in  connection with the  typology of  scholarly associations, on  the  one hand, and “cultural polyglottism” of  the  Prague School, on  the  other. The  author provides addenda to the academic edition Pražská škola v korespondenci: Dopisy z let 1924–1989 (Prague: Karolinum, 2014). Special attention is  paid to  Roman Jakobson’s Czechoslovak years.