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<p>The article examines the multifaceted activity of Evgeny Polivanov, whose contribution to the formation of new linguistics and the formal method continues to provoke debate. The specificity of Polivanov’s main ideas and principles, in comparison with the mainstream formalists (Shklovsky, Tynianov) consisted in the reliance on the heritage of positivism (Baudouin, historian Kareev), supplemented by a kind of sociological and cultural “relationalism”.</p>
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The article examines the multifaceted activity of Evgeny Polivanov, whose contribution to the formation of new linguistics and the formal method continues to provoke debate. The specificity of Polivanov’s main ideas and principles, in comparison with the mainstream formalists (Shklovsky, Tynianov) consisted in the reliance on the heritage of positivism (Baudouin, historian Kareev), supplemented by a kind of sociological and cultural “relationalism”.

Yevgeny Polivanov: Beyond Formalism?

Linguistic Frontiers

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The article examines the multifaceted activity of Evgeny Polivanov, whose contribution to the formation of new linguistics and the formal method continues to...

Yevgeny Polivanov: Beyond Formalism?

Publié en ligne: 08 juil. 2023

Pages: 18 - 22

Reçu: 01 févr. 2023

Accepté: 01 mars 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2023-0009

Mots clés
formalism, positivism, psychologism, linguistics, linguistic building.

© 2023 Alexander Dmitriev, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Yevgeny Polivanov: Beyond Formalism?

Publié en ligne: 08 juil. 2023

Pages: 18 - 22

Reçu: 01 févr. 2023

Accepté: 01 mars 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2023-0009

Mots clésformalism, positivism, psychologism, linguistics, linguistic building.

© 2023 Alexander Dmitriev, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
formalism, positivism, psychologism, linguistics, linguistic building.