The general meaning as a potential
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2023.2234234" target="_blank" >10.1080/03740463.2023.2234234</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The general meaning as a potential
Original language description
This article examines the idea of the "potentiality" of language phenomena as expressed by Vilém Mathesius in 1911, and its relation to the debate on the general or basic concept of a linguistic category, discussed by Roman Jakobson, Louis Hjelmslev and others around 1935. We track the concept of potentiality in Roman Jakobson's and Louis Hjelmslev's texts from the period, then we point out similarities with ideas expressed by Émile Benveniste around the same time. Next, we examine Mathesius' very different idea of potentiality as the state of linguistic expressions that may be otherwise. However, by tracking the problem through Mathesius' later texts, I follow how his theorization gradually develops to converge with Jakobson's. I will stress the importance for Mathesius as a professor of English philology of the problem of the sentence, with a focus on the Focus-Topic articulation theory in the whole process.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia
ISSN
0374-0463
e-ISSN
1949-0763
Volume of the periodical
55
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
37-54
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85171683898