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Jakobson, Roman
Roman Jakobson (1896-1982), who in both literary studies and in linguistics was an exceptionally prolific scholar with broad interests spanning such fields as phonology, Philology, Slavic literature and folklore, general linguistics, aesthetics, comparative mythology, avant-garde painting, poetry, and comparative metrics, has had an outstanding impact on literary theory, especially in Semiotics and discourse analysis, as well as in many other fields that do not concern us here, such as social anthropology and psychoanalysis. ... For some idea of the scope of this impact, the reader should consult Armstrong and Schoonevelds Roman Jakobson: Echoes of His Scholarship. Additional insight into the nature of Jakobsons contribution to poetics, folklore, metrics, phonology, time and space in language and literature, grammar and poetry, and semiotics can be gleaned from the extended interview with Krystyna Pomorska in the Jakobson-Pomorska Dialogues. ... He writes in "Linguistics and Poetics: Closing Statement" that all acts of communication, be they written or oral, are contingent on six constituent elements:
CONTEXT
MESSAGE
ADDRESSER . ... (Though Jakobson stipulates that by "context" he means "referent," the term is confusing, since it could be mistakenly construed as pointing to the circumstances of utterance rather than to what the message is about.
Approximate Word count = 1108
Approximate Pages = 4.4
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