Jakobson novel

Roman Ossipovich Jakobson (October 11th 1896 - July 18th 1982) was a Russian thinker which became one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century by posing the first stones of the development of the analysis structural of the Langage, of the Poésie and the Art.

Life and work

Jakobson is born in an easy Russian family, where, very young person, it is taken of a fascination for the language. Student, he is an eminent member of the Muscovite Linguistic Cercle and takes part in the life of the Muscovite avant-garde of art and poetry. The linguistics of the time is primarily that of the Néogrammairien S and affirms that the only scientific manner to study the language is to study the history and the development of the Mot S during time. On its side, Jakobson, which was informed of work of Ferdinand de Saussure, develops an approach which concentrates on the manner by which the structure of the language itself makes it possible to communicate.

1920 is one year of political upheavals in Russia, and Jakobson leaves to Prague to continue its doctorate. With Nicolaï Troubetzkoy and some others, it founds the École of Prague of the linguistic theory. Its many work on the Phonétique helps it over there to continue its developments on the structure and the function of the language.

Jakobson leaves Prague at the beginning of the Second world war for the Scandinavian countries. The war advancing in the west, it flees in New York and is integrated into the already broad community of the intellectuals having flees Europe in war. With the Private school of the High Studies, a kind of “French-speaking university of exiled”, it meets and works with Claude Lévi-Strauss which will become an important support for the Structuralisme. It becomes acquainted also with several linguists and American anthropologists like Leonard Bloomfield.

In 1949, Jakobson settles with the university of Harvard where he teaches until the end of his life. To the beginning of the year 1960, Jakobson extends its work in a more general sight of the language and starts to publish on the whole of sciences of the Communication. It works out a linguistic model divided into six functions (see low).

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