Roman Jakobson
Author
1896 – 1982
Who was Roman Jakobson?
Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian–American linguist and literary theorist.
As a pioneer of the structural analysis of language, which became the dominant trend in linguistics during the first half of the 20th century, Jakobson was among the most influential linguists of the century. Influenced by the work of Ferdinand de Saussure, Jakobson developed, with Nikolai Trubetzkoy, techniques for the analysis of sound systems in languages, inaugurating the discipline of phonology. He went on to apply the same techniques of analysis to syntax and morphology, and controversially proposed that they be extended to 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 Charles Sanders 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.
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- Born
- Oct 11, 1896
Moscow - Also known as
- 罗曼·雅各布森
- Якобсон, Роман Осипович
- Ethnicity
- Russian
- Nationality
- Russia
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages
- PhD, Charles University in Prague
( - 1930) - Moscow State University
- Lived in
- Cambridge
(1949 - 1982/07/18)
- Cambridge
- Died
- Jul 18, 1982
Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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