Among the many Central European scholars and intellectuals driven into exile across the Atlantic in the 1930s was the prominent Vienna psychologist Karl Bühler (1879–1963). Bühler had great difficulty establishing himself in his new home of the United States, despite his attempts to adapt his ideas to the American scene. In this paper, we look at one such attempt at adaptation, the unpublished manuscript of Bühler’s “Pocketbook on Practical Semantics,” an effort to turn the Sprachtheorie of his Vienna period into a contribution to the applied semiotics and communications research popular in America at the time. Our paper represents the first detailed examination of the “Pocketbook” manuscript that places it in its context in the history of semiotics.

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从语言理论到语义学和控制论：Karl Bühler 的“Pocketbook on practical semantics”

1930 年代许多中欧学者和知识分子被迫流亡大西洋彼岸，其中有著名的维也纳心理学家卡尔·布勒（Karl Bühler，1879-1963 年）。布勒很难在他的新家美国站稳脚跟，尽管他试图使自己的想法适应美国的情况。在这篇论文中，我们研究了这样一种改编尝试，即 Bühler 未出版的手稿“Pocketbook on Practical Semantics”，这是一种将语言理论他在维也纳时期的经历转化为对当时美国流行的应用符号学和传播学研究的贡献。我们的论文代表了对“袖珍书”手稿的首次详细检查，将其置于符号学历史的背景中。