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Prague school of linguistics

    If you are in search of a Prague school or Prague linguistics school then you are in the right place. In this blog, I discuss what is Prague school, who was working at Prague school, and the purpose of Prague school.     Prague school  The Prague school or Prague linguistic  circle is a language and literary society.  It is started in 1926 by Vilem Mathesius. Who was working in a Prague school? Three domains were working there: 1) Linguists          2) Philologists     3) Literary critics  Purpose of the Prague school: Their main focus was to standardize one  language and tell about how one dialect  could be different from others.             The End

Mental space theory

 Mental Space Theory  This theory is founded by Talmy in 2000.    Mental space theory is a theory in the field  of linguistics and cognitive psychology.  It suggests that mental space is organized by mental operations and mental operations are organized by mental models. Mental operations are the mental processes that people perform when they think, reason, and communicate.                                                                   A mental model is the representation of the  the way something works. Mental models are used to understand,  predict, and explain the behavior of people  and things.                                     Models are also used to make decisions,...