The Linguists Who Came in from the Cold

Absolutely fantastic and at the same time rigorous ideas emerged in linguistics during the Thaw: mathematical linguistics, machine translation, semiotics. A new science - structural linguistics grew from this diversity. Vyacheslav Ivanov, Vladimir Uspensky, Igor Mel'chuk, and other structuralists created departments and laboratories, argued about science and homeland at conferences, dining-rooms, and backpacking trips, spoke the truth at meetings and signed joint letters - and became true heroes of their time. Maria Buras combines the witty, hilarious and tragic words of witnesses and participants in a story of time and science in the genre of "linguistics. doc".

 

"Maria Buras has created a wonderful book. It is the history of science in faces, to a large extent, History in general. This publication of great linguists has been developed for a wide range of non-great linguists, which are all of us" (Evgeny Vodolazkin).