The London school of
linguistics is involved with the study of language on the descriptive plane
(synchrony), the distinguishing of structural (syntagmatic) and systemic
(paradigmatic) concepts, and the social aspects of language. In the forefront
is semantics. The school’s primary contribution to linguistics has been the
situational theory of meaning in semantics (the dependence of the meaning of a
linguistic unit on its use in a standard context by a definite person;
functional variations in speech are distinguished on the basis of typical
contexts) and the prosodic analysis in phonology (the consideration of the
phenomena accruing to a sound: the number and nature of syllables, the
character of sound sequences, morpheme boundaries, stress, and so on). The
distinctive function is considered to be the primary function of a phoneme.
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