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  The Prague school (from linguistics) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The Prague school (from linguistics) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Linguists of the Prague school stress the function of elements within language, the...
Prague is located in Lincoln County, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Oklahoma City.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-35103?tocId=35103   (821 words)

  
 Czech Republic, Prague: International School of Prague
Organization: The School is governed by a 9-member Board of Directors, 3 of whom are elected by the parents of children enrolled, 5 of whom are elected by the Board, and 1 of whom is appointed by the U.S. Ambassador.
The School is not officially recognized by the government of the Czech Republic, nor is its program in any way regulated by the Czech Ministry of Education.
Because ISP is committed to continuous improvement, it is accredited by the Council of International Schools and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
www.state.gov /m/a/os/1393.htm   (431 words)

  
 Prague School Structuralism
In 1928 the Prague participants of the First International Congress of Linguists in The Hague drafted a program for structural linguistics with the Geneva school scholars (not to be confused with the later Geneva School phenomenological critics).
Prague school epistemology reconciled Saussure's opposition of synchrony and diachrony, of structural and historical study.
In accepting genetic and reception history, the Prague scholars transcended their original historical "immanentism," recognizing that "literary works are made by people, they are facts of social culture and exist in numerous relationships to other phenomena of cultural life" (25).
www.press.jhu.edu /books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/prague_school_structuralism.html   (2352 words)

  
 Partnership: New Prague Middle School
The New Prague Living Lab is adjacent to the elementary school, across the street from the high school and just a couple of blocks from the middle school.
The pond, with two nesting islands on it, was excavated in 1990-91 on school land.
Middle school student mentors assisted elementary students in planting the trees and shrubs.
www.wolf-ridge.org /teacher_res/school_comm/former_snap/par95new.html   (221 words)

  
 CTS-99-03
Prague became a conglomerate of numerous traditions, cultural influences and scientific aspirations.1) To many intellectuals at that time it provided a refuge, a place of stopover where they could live and work.
The main representative of the school of Junggrammatiker in Bohemia was Jan Gebauer (1838-–1907), the author of The Historical Grammar of the Czech Language and The Dictionary of the Old Czech.
The term Prague school (or L’École de Prague) was first used in 1932 at the international conference in Amsterdam.
www.cts.cuni.cz /reports/1999/CTS-99-03.htm   (2496 words)

  
 JournalStar.com
PRAGUE — A few minutes after finishing a lesson in surveying to a group of Prague High School students, shop teacher and Principal Ray Collins sets up a wooden booth near the entrance to the gym.
It’s one of the smallest schools in eastern Nebraska.
Prague, while it’s held onto its school, bank and other businesses, isn’t the town it used to be, said Paul Sloup, who grew up there.
www.journalstar.com /articles/2005/09/15/nebraska/doc4322043ea8598177326198.txt   (1204 words)

  
 The Patrin Web Journal - Romani Education Programme
The trainers are members of teacher training colleges, The Charles University in Prague, JE Purkynû University in Ustí nad Labem as well as experienced teachers and head masters from schools with a high percentage of Romani students.
The purpose of the meeting is to bring together school directors who work with teaching assistants and head masters of schools who are interested in the project to discuss the benefits of the project and how it works.
School directors will also discuss problems encountered and solutions in order to co-ordinate efforts at the administrative level to incorporate the work of the teaching assistants into the daily running of the schools.
www.geocities.com /Paris/5121/roma-education.htm   (3038 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Jiří Musil is a Professor of Sociology at Charles University, Prague and Professor of Central European University, Budapest and Warsaw.
Musil served as the first director of the renewed Institute of Sociology in Prague from 1990 to 1992 and was President of the Masaryk Czech Sociological Association from 1997 to 1998.
She continued her postgraduate studies at the Eckersley School of English at the Oxford Academy and received her Master of Letters degree in 1999 from Oxford University in the field of modern languages.
www.nyu.edu /global/prague/program/professors.html   (4081 words)

  
 John Benjamins: Book details for The Prague School and Its Legacy [LLSEE 27]
Many of the fundamental ideas of the classical Prague School have guided or inspired much of the interdisciplinary post World War II research in linguistics, literary theory, semiotics, folklore and the arts.
The Prague School pro- moted a humanistic and functional Leitmotiv of language as an open, flexible, adaptable, and abstract system of systems used by human beings to communicate.
I. Prague school phonology and its theoretical and methodological implications
www.benjamins.com /cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LLSEE_27   (224 words)

  
 New Prague Independent School District #721
Today is the day residents in School District #721 will go to the polls to decide on four school bond questions in addition to selecting three School Board candidates.
The New Prague School Board has set attendance boundaries for the three elementary schools.
The boundaries were set with consideration for the population, definable natural boundaries such as highways, roads, rivers, and/or balanced social economic factors.
www.np.k12.mn.us   (261 words)

  
 Prague school --  Encyclopædia Britannica
school of the visual arts that flourished in and around Prague under the patronage of Charles IV, king of Bohemia from 1346 and Holy Roman emperor from 1355 to 1378.
Among its buildings, scattered throughout Prague, is the Carolinum, one of the oldest existing university buildings in the world.
Tomasek was the archbishop of Prague (1977–91) who maintained a cautious but resolute opposition to the Czechoslovak Communist authorities and helped to free his country in the 1989 “velvet” revolution.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9061174?tocId=9061174&query=prague   (759 words)

  
 Infant of Prague School - Cheektowaga, NY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Infant of Prague School serves the Christian community by building strong academic foundations with an emphasis on the development of Christian character, values and responsibility.
Infant of Prague is chartered by the NYS Board of Regents and is in compliance with all regents requirements.
As an accredited school with the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Infant of Prague has been recognized for its commitment to excellence in education.
iopschool.org   (126 words)

  
 Prague - Education - Preschools - British International School
The British International School, Prague was founded in 1992 to serve both the Czech and international communities in Prague.
Classes throughout the school are small which allows for carefully planned individual programmes of study where needed.
Two nursery and primary schools are situated in residential areas in both the south east (Modrany) and north west of Prague (Bubenec).
prague.tv /venues/bisp   (432 words)

  
 Recent News Articles :: Minnesota Real Estate :: Jeff Anderson RE/MAX Results
New Prague asked its voters in May to fund three elementary schools, including one in Lonsdale, at a cost of $46 million.
New Prague school officials have not finalized the costs for the December proposal.
New Prague plans to end open enrollment as of this month, eliminating the chance that a New Prague-built school would draw students from the Montgomery-Lonsdale side of the line.
www.relocatingtominnesota.com /tcNewsStories/article09_15_04.html   (688 words)

  
 New international business school opens in Prague - 16-09-2004 - Radio Prague
The director of Prague College Douglas Hajek, a Canadian of Czech descent, says the school is filling a niche on the Czech education market.
Prague College claims to be able to tailor its programme to the students' interests, abilities, immediate situation and long-term goals - whether they are coming straight from high school or have many years of work experience.
Prague really is centrally located in Europe and certainly is a very attractive destination for studies for people particularly from countries further east or countries perhaps that are not yet in the EU but are intending to be.
www.radio.cz /en/issue/58218   (1286 words)

  
 Christian International School of Prague - CISP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
In order to keep this school affordable for the non-profit sector, we require all teachers of our school from North America to be fully funded through their own mission support-raising efforts.
For example, a wide range of literature and world history will be studied; both metric and English systems of measurement are used, etc. Also, we will be sensitive to students who need specific courses for entrance into universities in their home countries, and help students meet requirements as we are able.
We allow home schooling families to send their children to our school for individual classes when we offer courses and schedules that meet their needs.
www.cisprague.org /?id=4   (678 words)

  
 Directories
Because ISP is committed to continuous improvement, it is accredited jointly by the Council of International Schools and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
The school includes three computer and four science laboratories, a cafeteria, a theater, two playgrounds, four outdoor tennis courts, four basketball courts (two inside, two outside), two gymnasia and a library.
Located at the outskirts of Prague, the school is surrounded by green, rolling hills.
www.cois.org /directory/Directory_Page.asp?School_ID=ISPRA3   (386 words)

  
 Jazyková škola hlavního města Prahy
The official name of our language school is the City of Prague Language School, as it operates under the aegis of the Magistrate of the City of Prague and its activities are in compliance with Regulation No. 33/2005 Coll.
The school year is organised much as it is at other state schools.
The City of Prague Language School is the only language school in the Czech Republic where people can not only choose from among 25 to 30 languages, but can also take the state certification exams in these languages.
www.sjs.cz /index_angl.html   (488 words)

  
 John Benjamins: Book details for Dictionary of the Prague School of Linguistics [SFSL 50]
The dictionary both captures the pioneering efforts and achievements of the school from its foundation in 1926, and provides a framework for assessing the current state of affairs, attesting to its originality and serving as a preventive to treading paths already explored.
Vachek's dictionary is most certainly an excellent synthesis of the essential views of the Prague School of Linguistics, and we can only applaud the fact that it has been made available in English.
Jun Qian, in The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, Vol.
www.benjamins.nl /cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SFSL_50   (385 words)

  
 Photo Archives Query Results
Pupils pose with their teacher in a classroom at an elementary school in Prague.
Group portrait of students in a Jewish school in Kovno, Lithuania at the turn of the century.
Group portrait of the alumni of the Hebrew language Tarbut school in Vilna taken on the twentieth anniversary of the Hebrew gymnasium.
www.ushmm.org /uia-cgi/uia_query/photos?hr=null&query=kw110282   (1235 words)

  
 Prague School Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Prague Castle Gardens is a beautiful and successful venue in the city itself.
Schools, community centres and residential homes are supportive venues for groups year round with the opportunity to meet local people who enthusiastically welcome our visiting musicians.
These attract large enthusiastic audiences for those groups who elect to stay outside Prague for part of their tour.
www.nstmusic.co.uk /prague-schools-tour.asp   (396 words)

  
 School
Infant of Prague Catholic School is the result of the consolidation of two area Catholic schools, Infant of Prague established in 1952 and Holy Spirit established in 1962.
Our faculty members of Infant of Prague Catholic School are certified or certifying in their subject areas.
Applicants are accepted on the basis of a sincere interest in Infant of Prague Catholic School and the ability to develop and thrive in the academic and spiritual environment.
www.iopnc.org /School/StFrancisSchool.htm   (322 words)

  
 Prague Piano School - PIANO SERVICE
The Piano Service Co. is a subsidiary company od the Prague Piano School, Prague, Czech Republic, established in 1995 with the aim of selling and high-quality repairing of keyboard instruments.
The PS also offers complete services of acoustical laboratory, In so far that the PS is able to prepare exhaustive project of new concert hall, reconstructioned halls and rooms, icl.
The Prague Piano School was established in 1995 with the aim of creating competition to the monopoly of elementary artistic schools (ZUŠ).
www.klavir.cz /pianoservice   (210 words)

  
 Best of JTS Magazine: Jewish Prague, The Jewish Theological Seminary
Although the school currently serves only seventy-eight pupils in six classes (first to third grades, sixth grade and two high school grades), it is perhaps the most vivid and promising sign of a modest rebirth of the Czech Jewish community.
The school, with its modern equipment, young enthusiastic teachers, small classes and parental involvement, has a chance to become an excellent institution of education.
Before the school opened, members of the community feared that there were not enough Jewish children in Prague for such an endeavor.
www.jtsa.edu /about/communications/pubs/bestof/jp.shtml   (957 words)

  
 TOPCOM, Sabbatical Travels or Letters from Prague by Richard Ball and Joan Winn
You could tell that the school was in Prague, both by the lunch menu and by the fact that the phone lines took over a year to be connected (they operated on cellular phones in the interim).
It is common in Czech public schools for students to spend a week out of town with their classmates, especially in the winter when the city air reeks of coal smoke and car exhaust.
Prague's most prestigious spring celebration is the three-week-long Prague Spring music festival, which starts on May 12, the anniversary of Czech composer Bedrich Smetana's death.
at.yorku.ca /t/o/p/c/70.htm   (13466 words)

  
 International School of Prague
The school is located within the grounds of a Czech elementary school, but operates independently.
TISOL began its first school year with fourteen students, and is expected to grow steadily in response to economic growth and investment in the region.
The school is characterized by a close relationship between students and teachers.
www.isp.cz /info/olomouc.htm   (151 words)

  
 Alan Sikes's Response to Ken Cerniglia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
I must confess from the outset that I know very little about the Prague School, so my comments will be limited to my impression of Ken’s article supplemented by references from the Johns Hopkins online encyclopedia of literary criticism.
  That said, the aspect of Prague School structuralism that interests me most is the historical specificity of its aims and goals, particularly as Ken is employing it in his work.
To be sure, Diderot on the one hand and the Prague School formulae on the other are involved in the pursuit of different aims; Diderot is trying to describe the qualities of excellent acting, while the formulae attempt to establish the social relation between actor, spectator, and stage production.
home.earthlink.net /~marlacarlson/sikes2004_2.htm   (971 words)

  
 RIT - News & Events: Prague school appoints new dean
She replaces retiring dean Vaclav Prosser, who held that position since the school started in 1990.
To mark the transition, a reception will be held Wednesday, Feb. 14, in Prague at the residence of the ambassador of the United States.
Many of the school's alumni now hold senior management positions in the Czech Republic.
www.rit.edu /~930www/NewsEvents/2001/Feb01/prague.html   (153 words)

  
 Prague Public Schools - Prague Public School Begins August 17, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Parents or guardians of a student in kindergarten, seventh grade or child entering school from another state are required to provide proof that the student has completed a physical examination performed on the student named.
Each school in Nebraska is required to keep on file the immunization history of the students enrolled.
A student may be provisionally enrolled in a school in Nebraska if he or she has begun the immunizations series and continues the necessary immunizations as rapidly as is medically feasible.
www.praguepublicschools.org /vnews/display.v/ART/2005/08/04/42f27a3cd0344   (659 words)

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