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    Roman Osipovich Jakobson (Russian: Рома́н О́сипович Якобсо́н, IPA: [rɐˈman ˈosʲɪpəvʲɪt͡ɕ (j)ɪkɐpˈson]; 11 October [O.S. 29 September] 1896 – 18 July 1982)...
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    Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language (or communication functions), according to which an effective act of verbal communication can be described...
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    discusses them in particular ways in his book A Grammar of Motives. Whereas Roman Jakobson argued that the fundamental dichotomy in trope was between metaphor...
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  • Aspects of Translation is an essay written by Russian-American linguist Roman Jakobson in 1959. It was published in On Translation, a compendium of seventeen...
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    most prominent thinkers associated with structuralism include linguist Roman Jakobson and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The term structuralism is ambiguous...
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    Polish philosopher Roman Ivanovsky (born 1977), Russian swimmer Roman Jakobson (1896–1982), Russian-American philologist Roman Josi (born 1990), Swiss...
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  • Viktor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynianov, Vladimir Propp, Boris Eichenbaum, Roman Jakobson, Boris Tomashevsky, Grigory Gukovsky who revolutionised literary criticism...
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  • the archiphoneme. Another important figure in the Prague school was Roman Jakobson, one of the most prominent linguists of the 20th century. Louis Hjelmslev's...
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  • post-structuralism in the work of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Louis Hjelmslev, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, etc. Theatre semiotics:...
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  • the first distinctive feature theory was created by Russian linguist Roman Jakobson in 1941, it was assumed that the distinctive features are binary and...
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  • are all binary oppositions that are believed to make up the world. Roman Jakobson's model on the functions of language has two levels of description: the...
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    understanding that would otherwise make literary comprehension laborious. Roman Jakobson was one of the most celebrated linguists of the early-to-mid twentieth...
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  • information theory moved into semiotics, notably through the work of thinkers Roman Jakobson, Roland Barthes, and Umberto Eco, who in the course of the 1960s began...
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  • Poles", Roman Jakobson describes the couple as representing the possibilities of linguistic selection (metaphor) and combination (metonymy); Jakobson's work...
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  • meetings. The Prague linguistic circle included the Russian émigrés Roman Jakobson, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, and Sergei Karcevskiy, as well as the famous Czech...
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    his work and influence stretch far beyond it. Influential linguist Roman Jakobson hailed Khlebnikov as "the greatest world poet of our century". Viktor...
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    Trubetzkoy and Roman Jakobson headed the efforts of the Prague School in setting the course of phonological theory in the decades from 1940. Jakobson's universalizing...
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  • term "code-switching" in print was published in 1953, in a chapter by Roman Jakobson in Results Conf. Anthropologists & Linguists, written with C. F. Voegelin...
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    early decades of the 12th century. The linguist and literary theorist Roman Jakobson held a contrasting opinion, writing that Bojan, active at the court...
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  • to linguistics after Saussure's death by the Prague school linguists Roman Jakobson and Nikolai Trubetzkoy; while the term structural linguistics was coined...
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    communication phenomena Organon model – Model of communication by Karl Bühler Roman Jakobson – Russian linguist (1896–1982): communication model Speech act – Utterance...
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    nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Russian-American linguist Roman Jakobson. Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen was born on 7 June 1899 at 15 Herbert...
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  • 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"...
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    1976). Roman Jakobson. "The Kazan school of Polish linguistics and its place in the international development of phonology", Roman Jakobson: Selected...
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  • Multitree, but only Ethnologue currently defines czk. Uličná, Lenka, "Roman Jakobson a staročeské glosy ve středověkých hebrejských spisech". Bohemica Olomucensia...
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    Formalists, and his work is compared with that of Juri Lotman; in 1963 Roman Jakobson mentioned him as one of the few intelligent critics of Formalism. During...
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    sometimes hard to distinguish Trubetzkoy's views from those of his friend Roman Jakobson, who should be credited with spreading the Prague School views on phonology...
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  • between poetic and everyday language is therefore always shifting. Roman Jakobson had been an active member of the Russian Formalists and the Prague School...
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  • structuralism of Roman Jacobson. Between 1971 and 1997 he continued his studies at the Husserl archive in Leuven, at Harvard University with Roman Jakobson, and at...
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    Gimbutas, Marija. "ANCIENT SLAVIC RELIGION: A SYNOPSIS". In: To honor Roman Jakobson: essays on the occasion of his 70. birthday, 11. October 1966. Berlin...
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