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Malinowski’s Theories Zou Ni Brief Introduction Malinowski(1884~1942) is the first important scholar we should mention when we introduce the London School because his linguistic views greatly influenced J. R. Firth. Malinowski was born in Poland, but he spend most of his time in England. He was Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics since 1927. As an anthropologist, he was much concerned with the functions of human languages and studied languages in a sociocultural context, adopting an approach quite different from those of linguists at his time who were interested i