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2 unusual facts about Roman Jakobson


Fiction theory

Roman Jakobson, a Russian formalist and linguist, was one of the first individuals to discuss art as a way of communication that is intentionally aesthetic, and applied linguistics to analyses of literary texts.

Index of semiotics articles

Jakobson, Roman, "Language in Relation to Other Communication Systems", pp.


Acoustic phonetics

( This book by Japanese authors working in Japan was published in English at the height of World War II.) In 1952, Roman Jakobson, Gunnar Fant, and Morris Halle wrote "Preliminaries to Speech Analysis", a seminal work tying acoustic phonetics and phonological theory together.

Jiří Kroha

V roce 1938 se Kroha přidává k skupině umělců, kteří se zastávají moderních uměleckých trendů v sovětské kulturní politice (do této skupiny patřili například: Karel Teige, Bohuslav Brouk, František Halas, Roman Jakobson, Jaromír Krejcar, Jindřich Štyrský, Toyen; opačný stalinský socialisticko-realistický názor zastávali například: Julius Fučík, Zdeněk Nejedlý, Vítězslav Nezval, Stanislav Kostka Neumann, Ladislav Štoll, Bedřich Václavek).

Lawrence Krader

After the war, Krader returned to the USA and studied linguistics (1945–47) at Columbia University with Roman Jakobson and André Martinet.

Sebastian Shaumyan

Roman Jakobson praised his "genuine enthusiasm for inspired research and inspiring teaching"; while for Umberto Eco, Shaumyan’s model is the only alternative to Chomsky's.


see also

Stephen of Perm

(Originally published in 1967, in To Honor Roman Jakobson, ed. by Morris Halle, pp. 643–653. The Hague: Mouton. Also reprinted in 1968 Language Problems of Developing Nations, ed. by Joshua Fishman, Charles Ferguson, and J. Das Gupta, pp. 27–35. New York Wiley and Sons.) Language Structure and Language Use: Essays by Charles Ferguson, ed.