Jacobson, Roman, 1896-
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- Summary
- Roman Osipovich Jakobson 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, and the visual arts including cinema. Wikipedia
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [5]
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
- Born
- 1896-10-23 [7]
- Birth Place
- Moscow [5]
- Moskau [7]
- Died
- 1982-07-18 [7]
- Death Place
- Cambridge [5]
- Boston [5]
- Boston, Mass. [7]
- Country
- United States [7]
- Russia (Federation) [7]
- Language
- Russian [1]
- English [8]
- Occupation
- Filozofs [1]
- linguist [5]
- literary scholar [5]
- pedagogue [5]
- historian [5]
- writer [5]
- critic [5]
- teacher [5]
- philologist [5]
- scientist [5]
- university teacher [5]
- Employer
- Harvard University [5]
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology [5]
- Masaryk University [5]
- Work Place
- New York, NY [7]
- Field of Activity
- Filozofija [1]
- Educated at
- Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University [5]
- philosophy faculty of the German university of Prague [5]
- Country of Education
- Russian Empire [5]
- Czech Republic [5]
- Archives at
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries [5]
- Sources
- 1. National Library of Latvia
- 2. National Library of Korea
- 3. National Library and Archives of Québec
- 4. Danish Bibliographic Centre
- 5. Wikidata
- 6. VIAF
- 7. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 8. Bibliothèque nationale de France
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