The linguistic circle was founded in the Café Derby in Prague, which is also where meetings took place during its first years.
[6] Today the Prague linguistic circle is a scholarly society which aims to contribute to the knowledge of language and related sign systems according to functionally structural principles.
[7] The Prague linguistic circle included the Russian émigrés Roman Jakobson, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, and Sergei Karcevskiy, as well as the famous Czech literary scholars René Wellek and Jan Mukařovský.
"The programmatic 1929 Prague Theses, surely one of the most imposing linguistic edifices of the 20th century, incapsulated [sic] the functionalist credo.
"[9] In the late 20th century, English translations of the Circle's seminal works were published by the Czech linguist Josef Vachek in several collections.