Linguistic Circle of Prague
TANAKA Akio
The Linguistic Circle of Prague was taught from
CHINO Eiichi in his class of Structural Linguistics in the late 1970s.
We first met at the university in 1969. He was young, probably the age 30s.
I was 21 years old.
Now referring his chronological record, CHINO was born in 1932,
graduated Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 1955,
entered Carrel University at Czechoslovakia in 1958 and returned to Japan in 1964.
So we met after 5 years from his returning.
Sometimes we conversed at the coffee shop near the station we used.
California,
it was the name of the shop, up the rattled stairs, under the dim light.
It was the youth time of mine and probably with him.
The greatest thing he gave me was teaching me the existence of
KARCEVSKIJ Sergei
in the Linguistic Circle of Prague. My latter half life was almost determined
by KARCEVSLIJ's one paper, " Du dualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique" .
One day on the train after school, he calmly but definitely said to me
that he never was linguist because he never discovered any new language
or law and he only was the introducer to general linguistics.
Now I really think that I am also never linguist nor introducer. I only love language,
so have written on language or its around till now.
CHINO taught me the the study or rather more deep attitude to the life itself.
Regretfully he died in 2002, age 70.
He wrote several books on linguistics. The masterpiece that I confirmed is
Janua Linguisticae reserata 1994, that is the general invitation to linguistics
for further studying of wide and deep view.
The title was determined by the famous book of Jan Amos Komensky 1592-1670,
Janua Linguarum reserata 1632. Here I feel CHINO's deep love to the history
and culture
to Czechoslovakia where he studied for Czech in 7 years.
[Note added]
I frequently heard on Linguistic Circle of Prague (LCP) from CHINO.
But now standing in the twilight stage of my learning,
I have not understood anything about it essentially,
barely know that it have probably much more heritage
for contemporary language study than my thinking.
I am already old and can never start to cultivate the new frontier
on LCP or its successive study. Only saying now is
what I really recognise that LCP and Russian philology
is the heimat of my language study.
It is and will be the heimat of my soul evermore.
19 July 2012
Tokyo
13 July 2012
19 July 2012 Note added
23 October 2017 Note revised
Sekinan Research Field of Language
TANAKA Akio
The Linguistic Circle of Prague was taught from
CHINO Eiichi in his class of Structural Linguistics in the late 1970s.
We first met at the university in 1969. He was young, probably the age 30s.
I was 21 years old.
Now referring his chronological record, CHINO was born in 1932,
graduated Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 1955,
entered Carrel University at Czechoslovakia in 1958 and returned to Japan in 1964.
So we met after 5 years from his returning.
Sometimes we conversed at the coffee shop near the station we used.
California,
it was the name of the shop, up the rattled stairs, under the dim light.
It was the youth time of mine and probably with him.
The greatest thing he gave me was teaching me the existence of
KARCEVSKIJ Sergei
in the Linguistic Circle of Prague. My latter half life was almost determined
by KARCEVSLIJ's one paper, " Du dualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique" .
One day on the train after school, he calmly but definitely said to me
that he never was linguist because he never discovered any new language
or law and he only was the introducer to general linguistics.
Now I really think that I am also never linguist nor introducer. I only love language,
so have written on language or its around till now.
CHINO taught me the the study or rather more deep attitude to the life itself.
Regretfully he died in 2002, age 70.
He wrote several books on linguistics. The masterpiece that I confirmed is
Janua Linguisticae reserata 1994, that is the general invitation to linguistics
for further studying of wide and deep view.
The title was determined by the famous book of Jan Amos Komensky 1592-1670,
Janua Linguarum reserata 1632. Here I feel CHINO's deep love to the history
and culture
to Czechoslovakia where he studied for Czech in 7 years.
[Note added]
I frequently heard on Linguistic Circle of Prague (LCP) from CHINO.
But now standing in the twilight stage of my learning,
I have not understood anything about it essentially,
barely know that it have probably much more heritage
for contemporary language study than my thinking.
I am already old and can never start to cultivate the new frontier
on LCP or its successive study. Only saying now is
what I really recognise that LCP and Russian philology
is the heimat of my language study.
It is and will be the heimat of my soul evermore.
19 July 2012
Tokyo
13 July 2012
19 July 2012 Note added
23 October 2017 Note revised
Sekinan Research Field of Language
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