Krystyna Pomorska Books

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

These conversations between two linguistic scholars who were also husband and wife cover such topics as the characterization of the phoneme, symbolist poetry, the genetic basis of language, linguistic universals, semiotic systems, and aphasia and the process of language acquisition by children.