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Article published In: Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 18:1 (1991) ► pp.153–166

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165 Broadway – A crucial node in American Structural Linguistics

 | Cornell University
Published online: 1 January 1991
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Summary
During the Second World War, the United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) provided language teaching manuals and dictionaries for military and civilian use. From 1 July 1943 through 30 June 1945, this work was concentrated at an office which was located at 165 Broadway, New York City, and which was headed by a group of young, vigorous, and well trained linguists. The author provides a list of the personnel of this group and describes their activities and their relations with other developments in linguistics at that time and thereafter. Emphasis is placed on the crucial rôle of the ‘165 Broadway’ group in the application of structural linguistic analysis to the teaching of foreign languages in the United States in following decades.
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Pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, l’‘United States Armed Forces Institute’ (USAFI) fit préparer des matériaux pour l’enseignement des langues étrangères et aussi des dictionnaires, à l’usage des militaires et des civils. Du 1 juillet 1943 au 30 juin 1945, ce travail fut concentré dans un bureau situé à 165 Broadway, New York, et fut confié à un groupe de jeunes linguistes vigoureux et professionellement bien formés. L’auteur fournit une liste de ces linguistes et décrit leurs activités et leur rapport avec d’autres développements dans la linguistique de l’époque. Il souligne le rôle central du groupe de ‘165 Broadway’ dans l’application de la linguistique structurale à l’enseignement des langues étrangères en Amérique pendant les décennies suivantes
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