Abstract
Roman Jakobson was a Russian philologist with prolific writings who was interested in all aspects of language. He participated in the Moscow Linguistic Circle, OPOAIZ before moving to Prague and cofounding the Prague Linguistic Circle. After a short time in Scandinavia, in 1941 Jakobson immigrated to the United States, where he taught at Colombia University, Harvard, and MIT. A substantial proportion of his works are in literary studies and in linguistics. His works on phonology gave impetus to the evolution of structural linguistics, and his work on language functions and other aspects of language was used in literary studies and poetics. He cooperated with N. Troubetskoi, P. Bogatyrev, C. Levy-Strauss, M. Halle, and K. Pomorska. He also wrote Russian futuristic poetry under the pen name R. Aljagrov.
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