Vom gestörten Gleichgewicht. Modelle des Sprachwandels im Prager Strukturalismus und der frühen Sprachinhaltsforschung

Of all the terms and pairs of concepts coined in the Cours de linguistique générale, the juxtaposition of dubbing and synchrony in early reception has provoked the widest and most controversial discussion, a discussion that reached international proportions as early as the nineteen-twenties the individual streams of structuralism developed their school-specific profile. Contrary to the widespread view that structuralism was perceived only decades later in Germany, these debates have already spread to the German linguistics of the interwar period. In the following, I would like to try to trace a small section of this discussion in a chronological passage through some texts, paying particular tribute to the forgotten contribution of early speech content research.