Roman Jakobson was a pivotal figure in the structural analysis of language, profoundly influencing linguistics and literary theory. His innovative methodologies, initially focused on sound systems, were adeptly extended to syntax, morphology, and even the interpretation of poetry, music, and visual arts. Jakobson's generalization of structural methods became a major intellectual movement, shaping disciplines beyond linguistics, such as anthropology and literary studies. His enduring legacy continues to resonate in fields like cultural semiotics.
The work of Roman Jakobson has long been recognized as central to debates in linguistics and literary theory. This book makes Jakobson's ideas, previously collected only in a monumental, seven-volume edition of his selected writings, readily available for the first time. It brings together eleven essays on topics of crucial importance to poetics and linguistics
Reading this volume transported me back to Harvard and MIT lecture halls of the 1960s, where weekly Roman Jakobson would spellbind his audience (this reviewer included), developing his vision of language through impassioned exposition, deft and devastating allusions to critical literature, anecdotes with the force of parables, metaphors of mythic imagery, and above all else overriding verbal truly in his own phrase, 'In the poetry of grammar'. The Sound Shape of Language, his collaboration with Linda R. Waugh, a scholar who has devoted considerable attention to an exposition and elaboration of Jakobsonian views, fortunately has preserved in print the authoritative lectorial voice. Michael Silverstein in Journal of Communication
InhaltsverzeichnisFrontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- By Way of Preface -- 1. THE PATH TOWARD POETICS -- 2. APPROACHES TO FOLKLORE -- 3. VERSE AND THE SOUNDS OF LANGUAGE -- 4. THE ROLE OF CONSONANTS IN THE DISCOVERY OF PHONEMIC OPPOSITIONS -- 5. THE EFFECTS OF INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF LINGUISTIC THEORY -- 6. GENERAL ISSUES OF SOUNDS IN LANGUAGE -- 7. THE TIME FACTOR IN LANGUAGE AND IN LITERATURE -- 8. THE FACTOR OF SPACE -- 9. TIME IN THE FRAMEWORK OF SIGNS -- 10. THE CONCEPT OF THE MARK -- 11. PARALLELISM KP -- 12. POETRY AND GRAMMAR -- 13. SIMILARITY AND CONTIGUITY IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, IN THE CINEMA, AND IN APHASIA -- 14. THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE POET, POETRY AND MYTH -- 15. SEMIOTICS -- Afterword -- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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“Jakobson and Halle’s initial statement of the principles of linguistic organization should be made available to all future generations of linguists. It builds a solid foundation for Saussurean thinking about linguisic oppositions and establishes distinctive feature theory as the basis of their formal treatment.” Prof. Dr. William Labov, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics