Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages Moscow University
Spouse(s)
Svatava Pirkova, Krystyna Pomorska
School
Moscow linguistic circle Prague linguistic circle
Main interests
Linguistics
Notable ideas
Jakobson's functions of language Markedness
Semiotics
General concepts
Sign
relation
relational complex
Code
Confabulation
Connotation / Denotation
Encoding / Decoding
Lexical
Modality
Representation
Salience
Semiosis
Semiosphere
Semiotic theory of Peirce
Umwelt
Value
Fields
Biosemiotics
Cognitive semiotics
Computational semiotics
Literary semiotics
Semiotics of culture
Social semiotics
Methods
Commutation test
Paradigmatic analysis
Syntagmatic analysis
Semioticians
Mikhail Bakhtin
Roland Barthes
Marcel Danesi
John Deely
Umberto Eco
Paolo Fabbri
Gottlob Frege
Algirdas Julien Greimas
Félix Guattari
Stuart Hall
Louis Hjelmslev
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Roman Jakobson
Roberta Kevelson
Kalevi Kull
Juri Lotman
Charles W. Morris
Charles S. Peirce
Susan Petrilli
John Poinsot
Augusto Ponzio
Ferdinand de Saussure
Thomas Sebeok
Michael Silverstein
Eero Tarasti
Vladimir Toporov
Jakob von Uexküll
Victoria, Lady Welby
Related topics
Copenhagen–Tartu school
Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School
Structuralism
Post-structuralism
Deconstruction
Postmodernism
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Roman Osipovich Jakobson (Russian: Рома́н О́сипович Якобсо́н, IPA:[rɐˈmanˈosʲɪpəvʲɪt͡ɕ(j)ɪkɐpˈson]; 11 October [O.S. 29 September] 1896 – 18 July 1982) was a Russian linguist and literary theorist.
A pioneer of structural linguistics, Jakobson was one of the most celebrated and influential linguists of the twentieth century. With Nikolai Trubetzkoy, he developed revolutionary new techniques for the analysis of linguistic sound systems, in effect founding the modern discipline of phonology. Jakobson went on to extend similar principles and techniques to the study of other aspects of language such as syntax, morphology and semantics. He made numerous contributions to Slavic linguistics, most notably two studies of Russian case and an analysis of the categories of the Russian verb. Drawing on insights from C. S. Peirce's semiotics, as well as from communication theory and cybernetics, he proposed methods for the investigation of poetry, music, the visual arts, and cinema.
Through his decisive influence on Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes, among others, Jakobson became a pivotal figure in the adaptation of structural analysis to disciplines beyond linguistics, including philosophy, anthropology and literary theory; his development of the approach pioneered by Ferdinand de Saussure, known as "structuralism", became a major post-war intellectual movement in Europe and the United States. Meanwhile, though the influence of structuralism declined during the 1970s, Jakobson's work has continued to receive attention in linguistic anthropology, especially through the ethnography of communication developed by Dell Hymes and the semiotics of culture developed by Jakobson's former student Michael Silverstein. Jakobson's concept of underlying linguistic universals, particularly his celebrated theory of distinctive features, decisively influenced the early thinking of Noam Chomsky, who became the dominant figure in theoretical linguistics during the second half of the twentieth century.[1]
^Knight, Chris, 2018. Decoding Chomsky: Science and revolutionary politics. New Haven & London: Yale University Press,
discusses them in particular ways in his book A Grammar of Motives. Whereas RomanJakobson argued that the fundamental dichotomy in trope was between metaphor...
Aspects of Translation is an essay written by Russian-American linguist RomanJakobson in 1959. It was published in On Translation, a compendium of seventeen...
Lévi-Strauss had known RomanJakobson during their time together at the New School in New York during WWII and was influenced by both Jakobson's structuralism...
Viktor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynianov, Vladimir Propp, Boris Eichenbaum, RomanJakobson, Boris Tomashevsky, Grigory Gukovsky who revolutionised literary criticism...
are all binary oppositions that are believed to make up the world. RomanJakobson's model on the functions of language has two levels of description: the...
post-structuralism in the work of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Louis Hjelmslev, RomanJakobson, Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, etc. Theatre semiotics:...
the archiphoneme. Another important figure in the Prague school was RomanJakobson, one of the most prominent linguists of the 20th century. Louis Hjelmslev's...
Poles", RomanJakobson describes the couple as representing the possibilities of linguistic selection (metaphor) and combination (metonymy); Jakobson's work...
Trubetzkoy and RomanJakobson headed the efforts of the Prague School in setting the course of phonological theory in the decades from 1940. Jakobson's universalizing...
meetings. The Prague linguistic circle included the Russian émigrés RomanJakobson, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, and Sergei Karcevskiy, as well as the famous Czech...
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to linguistics after Saussure's death by the Prague school linguists RomanJakobson and Nikolai Trubetzkoy; while the term structural linguistics was coined...
his work and influence stretch far beyond it. Influential linguist RomanJakobson hailed Khlebnikov as "the greatest world poet of our century". Viktor...
reproduced in the target language, the meaning and content can. Linguist RomanJakobson went so far as to assert that all cognitive experience can be classified...
in linguistics in 1948. He then studied at Columbia University under RomanJakobson, became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in...
Armament of Igor", Part II, Sacred Texts.com RomanJakobson and Marc Szeftel, "The Vseslav Epos," in RomanJakobson and Ernest J. Simmons, eds., Russian Epic...
Japan was published in English at the height of World War II.) In 1952, RomanJakobson, Gunnar Fant, and Morris Halle wrote "Preliminaries to Speech Analysis"...
Etymonline.com. Retrieved 6 August 2012. Jakobson, Roman (1962). Selected writings: Comparative Slavic studies – RomanJakobson – Google Books. Walter de Gruyter...
Formalists, and his work is compared with that of Juri Lotman; in 1963 RomanJakobson mentioned him as one of the few intelligent critics of Formalism. During...
was written by RomanJakobson and Morris Halle. It was called Fundamentals of Language, published in 1956. Chomsky had already met Jakobson, a professor...
between poetic and everyday language is therefore always shifting. RomanJakobson had been an active member of the Russian Formalists and the Prague School...
Greimas Félix Guattari Stuart Hall Louis Hjelmslev Vyacheslav Ivanov RomanJakobson Roberta Kevelson Kalevi Kull Juri Lotman Charles W. Morris Charles S...
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