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60
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25458
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1415
National Ranking
670

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1946 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Roman Jakobson was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spanned several fields of study, primarily within Arts and Humanities as well as Social Sciences. The subfields they contributed to included Language and Linguistics, Philosophy, Linguistics and Language, and Cultural Studies.

Jakobson's scholarly work covered topics in Historical Linguistics and Language Studies, Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, French Language Learning Methods, and Psychoanalysis and Social Critique.

The following papers were published with their involvement:

  • La correspondance d'Émile Benveniste et Roman Jakobson (2021) in Histoire Épistémologie Langage
  • FOLKLORE AS A MANIFESTATION OF COLLECTIVE CREATION (2024) in Folklore structure typology semiotics
  • Annexe 2: [article nécrologique sur N. Marr] (2022) in Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage

Frequent co-authors included:

  • Heinrich von Kleist
  • Srečko Kosovel
  • Chloé Laplantine
  • Pierre-Yves Testenoire
  • Émile Benveniste

Jakobson's publications appeared in several venues, including:

  • Histoire Épistémologie Langage
  • Folklore structure typology semiotics
  • Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage

Books published by Roman Jakobson include:

  • Od Antigone do Zolaja: zbrani spisi (2021), published by Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) eBooks
  • Vizualna pismenost: Teoretsko raziskovanje, razumevanje, ustvarjanje in interpretacija sodobnosti (2024), published by Založba Univerze v Ljubljani (University of Ljubljana Press) eBooks

Roman Jakobson was recognized with the Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation award in 1946.

Best Publications

  • Preliminaries to Speech Analysis: The Distinctive Features and Their Correlates

    Roman Jakobson;C. Gunnar M. Fant;Moris Halle

  • On Linguistic Aspects of Translation

    Roman Jakobson

  • Closing statement : Linguistics and poetics

    R. Jakobson

  • Linguistics and poetics

    Roman Jakobson

  • Fundamentals of Language

    Roman Jakobson;Morris Halle

  • Child language. : Aphasia and phonological universals.

    Roman Jakobson

  • Shifters, Verbal Categories, and the Russian Verb

    Roman Jakobson

  • Essais de linguistique générale

    Roman Jakobson;Nicolas Ruwet

  • Kindersprache, Aphasie und allgemeine Lautgesetze

    Roman Jakobson

  • Language in Literature

    Roman Jakobson;Krystyna Pomorska;Stephen Rudy

  • The Sound Shape of Language

    Roman Jakobson;Linda R. Waugh

  • Quest for the Essence of Language

    Roman Jakobson

  • Towards a logical description of languages in their phonemic aspects

    Edward Collin Cherry;Morris Halle;Roman Jakobson

  • Ensayos de Linguistica General

    Roman Jakobson

  • Zur Struktur des russischen Verbums

    Roman Jakobson

  • Grammatical Parallelism and Its Russian Facet

    Roman Jakobson

  • Structure of Language and Its Mathematical Aspects

    Roman Jakobson

  • Language in Relation to Other Communication Systems

    Roman Jakobson

  • Poetry of grammar and grammar of poetry

    Roman Jakobson

  • Fundamentals of Language

    Martin Joos;Roman Jakobson;Morris Halle

  • Preliminaries to speech analysis

    Roman Jakobson;Gunnar Fant;Morris Halle

  • The Sound Shape of Language

    Henrik Birnbaum;Roman Jakobson;Linda Waugh

Frequent Co-Authors

Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss Université Paris Cité
Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Franz Boas
Franz Boas Columbia University
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer Heidelberg University
Thomas A. Sebeok
Thomas A. Sebeok Indiana University

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