Roman Osipovich Jakobson (Russian: Рома́н О́сипович Якобсо́н, IPA: [rɐˈman ˈosʲɪpəvʲɪt͡ɕ (j)ɪkɐpˈson]; 11 October [O.S. 29 September] 1896 – 18 July 1982)...

Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language (or communication functions), according to which an effective act of verbal communication can be described...

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...

most prominent thinkers associated with structuralism include linguist Roman Jakobson and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The term structuralism is ambiguous...

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...

Polish philosopher Roman Ivanovsky (born 1977), Russian swimmer Roman Jakobson (1896–1982), Russian-American philologist Roman Josi (born 1990), Swiss...

Viktor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynianov, Vladimir Propp, Boris Eichenbaum, Roman Jakobson, Boris Tomashevsky, Grigory Gukovsky who revolutionised literary criticism...

understanding that would otherwise make literary comprehension laborious. Roman Jakobson was one of the most celebrated linguists of the early-to-mid twentieth...

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...

the first distinctive feature theory was created by Russian linguist Roman Jakobson in 1941, it was assumed that the distinctive features are binary and...