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Roman Jakobson's writings range over the entire field of general
linguistics, as well as embracing Slavic linguistics and literature
theory. Jakobson has had a tremenduous influence on the development
of linguistic theory. He was a founder of and prime mover in the
Prague Linguistic Circle. On the basis of the new structuralist
concepts, he set forth bold theories of general linguistics and
illustrated them with brilliant demonstrations based on Slavic and
other languages. Taking a leading role in the elucidation of the
structural linguistic field of phonology, Jakobson used these
insights to develop new trends in historical phonology. Altogether,
his linguistics appears to incorporate the technical design of
modern theoretical concepts, but at the same time transcends purely
formal modeling through its interdisciplinary focus upon historical
and poetic matters. Jakobson was enormously successful in
presenting innovative theoretical insights and relating them to
possible practical applications. Specifically, his work on the
general processes of language acquisition and loss, on child
language and aphasia, opened up entirely new methods for linguists
and doctors alike. The series Selected Writings represents the
whole range of Roman Jakobson's field of research.
Roman Jakobson's writings range over the entire field of general
linguistics, as well as embracing Slavic linguistics and literature
theory. Jakobson has had a tremenduous influence on the development
of linguistic theory. He was a founder of and prime mover in the
Prague Linguistic Circle. On the basis of the new structuralist
concepts, he set forth bold theories of general linguistics and
illustrated them with brilliant demonstrations based on Slavic and
other languages. Taking a leading role in the elucidation of the
structural linguistic field of phonology, Jakobson used these
insights to develop new trends in historical phonology. Altogether,
his linguistics appears to incorporate the technical design of
modern theoretical concepts, but at the same time transcends purely
formal modeling through its interdisciplinary focus upon historical
and poetic matters. Jakobson was enormously successful in
presenting innovative theoretical insights and relating them to
possible practical applications. Specifically, his work on the
general processes of language acquisition and loss, on child
language and aphasia, opened up entirely new methods for linguists
and doctors alike. The series Selected Writings represents the
whole range of Roman Jakobson's field of research.
"Verbal Art, Verbal Sign, Verbal Time " was first published in
1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make
long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published
unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press
editions.
Roman Jakobson, one of the most important thinkers of our
century, was bet known for his role in the rise and spread of the
structural approach to linguistics and literature. His formative
structuralism approach to linguistics and literature. His formative
years with the Russian Futurists and subsequent involvement in the
Moscow and Prague Linguistic Circles (which he co-founded) resulted
in a lifelong devotion to fundamental change in both literary
theory and linguistics. In bringing each to bear upon the other, he
enlivened both disciplines; if a literary work was to a him a
linguistic fact, it was also a semiotic phenomenon - part of the
entire universe of signs; and above all, for both language and
literature, time was an integral factor, one that produced momentum
and change. Jakobson's books and articles, written in many
languages and published around the world, were collected in a
monumental seven-volume work, "Selected Writings "(1962 -1984),
which has been available only to a limited readership. Not long
before his death in 1982, Jakobson brought together this group of
eleven essays--"Verbal Art, Verbal Sign, Verbal Time " -- to serve
as an introduction to some of his linguistic theories and
especially, to his work in poetics.
Jakobson's introductory article and the editor's preface
together suggest the range of his work and provide a context for
the essays in this book, which fall into three groups. Those in the
first section reflect his preoccupation with the dynamic role of
time in language and society. Jakobson challenges Saussure's rigid
distinction between language as a static (synchronic) system and
its historical (diachronic) development - a false opposition, in
his view, since it ignores the role of time in the present moment
of language. The essays on time counter the notion that
structuralism itself, as heir to Saussure's work, has discarded
history; in Jakabson's hands, we see a struggle to integrate the
two modes. In central group essays, on poetic theory, he shows how
the grammatical categories of everyday speech become the
expressive, highly charged language of poetry. These essays also
deal with the related issues of subliminal and intentional
linguistic patterns of poetry. These essays also deal with the
related issues of subliminal and intentional linguistic patterns in
poetry--areas that are problematic in structural analysis--and
provide exemplary readings of Pushkin and Yeats. The last essays,
on Mayakovsky and Holderlin, make clear that Jakobson was aware of
the essential (and in these instances, tragic) bond between a
poet's life and art. The book closes with essays by Linda Waugh,
Krystyna Pomorska, and Igor Melchuk that provide a thoughtful
perspective on Jakobson's work as a whole.
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