Roman Jakobson

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human linguist literary theorist semiotician structuralist

Roman Jakobson was a pioneering Russian-American linguist and literary theorist whose work in structuralism and phonology profoundly shaped modern linguistics and semiotics.

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Roman Jakobson canonical 10
Nikolai Trubetzkoy 1
Roman Osipovich Jakobson 1

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instanceOf human ⓘ
linguist ⓘ
literary theorist ⓘ
semiotician ⓘ
structuralist ⓘ
awardReceived Antonio Feltrinelli Prize ⓘ
surface form: International Antonio Feltrinelli Prize

Order of the White Lion ⓘ
burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery ⓘ
causeOfDeath complications from illness ⓘ
coAuthor Claude Lévi-Strauss ⓘ
Gunnar Fant ⓘ
Morris Halle ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship Czechoslovakia ⓘ
Russian Empire ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1896-10-11 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 1982-07-18 ⓘ
developedConcept distinctive features in phonology ⓘ
metaphoric and metonymic poles of language ⓘ
six functions of language ⓘ
educatedAt Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages ⓘ
Moscow State University ⓘ
surface form: Moscow University
employer Charles University in Prague ⓘ
surface form: Charles University

Columbia University ⓘ
Harvard University ⓘ
Masaryk University ⓘ
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ
familyName Jakobson ⓘ
fieldOfWork linguistics ⓘ
literary theory ⓘ
phonology ⓘ
poetics ⓘ
semiotics ⓘ
fullName Roman Jakobson self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Roman Osipovich Jakobson
givenName Roman ⓘ
influenced Claude Lévi-Strauss ⓘ
Julia Kristeva ⓘ
Michael Halliday ⓘ
Noam Chomsky ⓘ
Roland Barthes ⓘ
Roman Ingarden ⓘ
Tzvetan Todorov ⓘ
Yuri Lotman ⓘ
influencedBy Ferdinand de Saussure ⓘ
Nikolai Trubetzkoy ⓘ
Sergei Karcevski ⓘ
Vilém Mathesius ⓘ
knownFor contributions to poetics ⓘ
contributions to semiotics ⓘ
distinctive feature theory ⓘ
structural phonology ⓘ
theory of language functions ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName Czech ⓘ
English ⓘ
French ⓘ
German ⓘ
Russian ⓘ
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ
American Philosophical Society ⓘ
Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences ⓘ
Moscow Linguistic Circle ⓘ
Prague Linguistic Circle ⓘ
movement Russian formalism ⓘ
structuralism ⓘ
nativeLanguage Russian ⓘ
notableWork Closing Statement: Linguistics and Poetics ⓘ
Kindersprache, Aphasie und allgemeine Lautgesetze ⓘ
Linguistics and Poetics ⓘ
Selected Writings ⓘ
Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning ⓘ
The Sound Shape of Language ⓘ
Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances ⓘ
placeOfBirth Moscow ⓘ
Russian Empire ⓘ
placeOfDeath Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ
surface form: Boston

Massachusetts ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
residence Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ
Moscow ⓘ
New York City ⓘ
Prague ⓘ
spouse Kristina Pomorska ⓘ
Svatava Pírková-Jakobson ⓘ
studied aphasia ⓘ
child language ⓘ

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Edward Sapir → influenced → Roman Jakobson ⓘ
Morris Halle → doctoralAdvisor → Roman Jakobson ⓘ
Morris Halle → influencedBy → Roman Jakobson ⓘ
Morris Halle → influencedBy → Roman Jakobson ⓘ
this entity surface form: Nikolai Trubetzkoy
Karl Bühler → influenced → Roman Jakobson ⓘ
Charles Sanders Peirce → influenced → Roman Jakobson ⓘ
Roman Jakobson → fullName → Roman Jakobson self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Roman Osipovich Jakobson
Structural Anthropology → influencedBy → Roman Jakobson ⓘ
Ferdinand de Saussure → influenced → Roman Jakobson ⓘ
Donca Steriade → influencedBy → Roman Jakobson ⓘ
Jan Baudouin de Courtenay → influenced → Roman Jakobson ⓘ
Linguistic Society of America → hasNotableMember → Roman Jakobson ⓘ