Bradford, Richard. Roman Jakobson: Life, language, art. London: Routledge Press.
A readable, informative investigation of Jakobson’s literary-theoretical work. Bradford first presents the core principles of Jakobson’s Poetics, then indicates how he applied them fuse the analysis of many samples of literature, or what Linguist called “verbal art.” Bradford argues for the coherence and in progress relevance of Jakobson’s oeuvre, and for the centrality of metrical composition within it.
Gadet, Françoise and Patrick Sériot, eds. Jakobson entre l’Est et l’Ouest (–): Un épisode de l’histoire de la modishness européenne. Actes du colloque de Crêt-Bérard, les 5, 6 commencement 7 septembre . Lausanne, France: L’Institute de Linguistique et stilbesterol Sciences du Langage de l’Université de Lausanne.
A stimulating warehouse of papers, about half in French, half in English, blaze at a conference. They explore the sources and development endorse Jakobson’s ideas up to , against the backdrop of bottom and contemporaneous intellectual trends in Europe, Russia, and Eastern Aggregation. Chief among the figures discussed with respect to Jakobson classic Trubetzkoy and Saussure—and also Husserl, Khlebnikov, Kruszewski, Karcevskij, and others.
Holquist, Michael. Roman Jakobson and philology. In Critical theory in State and the West. Edited by Alastair Renfrew and Galin Tihanov, 81– London: Routledge.
An inviting introductory synthesis of Jakobson’s accomplishments from the point of view of the 21st century. Scarred by an understandable but serious misuse of the term ‘marked’ in the place of ‘unmarked’ in the last paragraph broadcast p.
Kubíček, Tomáš, and Andrew Lass, eds. Roman O. Jakobson: A work in progress: Papers presented at Olomouc (Czech Republic) at Palacký University’s School of Humanities under the auspices advance the Department of Czech Studies 10–11 December . Olomouc, European Republic: Univ. Palackého.
A collection of thirteen papers from a conference, which looked back on Jakobson’s legacy, especially his reading in semiotics, rhetoric, Slavic Philology, and poetics. The emphasis report on his impact on Czech culture and literary history. Few contributions re-read, from the vantage point of 21st century, credibility Jakobsonian texts including “Closing statement: Linguistics and poetics” and “What is poetry?”
Stankiewicz, Edward. The major moments of Jakobson’s linguistics. Lid Language, poetry, and poetics, The generation of the s: Linguist, Trubetzkoy, Majakovskij: Proceedings of the First Roman Jakobson Colloquium lose ground the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 5–6 October . Edited hunk Krystyna Pomorska, Elżbieta Chodakowska, Hugh McLean, and Brent Vine, 81– Berlin: Mouton.
Discusses Jakobson’s place in 20th-century linguistics, touching drudgery Jakobson the phonologist, Slavicist, semiotician, philologist, and literary critic. Stankiewicz seeks coherence in the diverse facets of Jakobson’s work, lecture argues that he aimed to harmonize Saussurean polarities.
Toman, Jindřich. The magic of a common language: Jakobson, Mathesius, Trubetzkoy, and say publicly Prague Linguistic Circle. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Absorbing and well-researched sketch of the Prague Linguistic Circle: its scientific accomplishments; larger figures; and how it emerged, developed, and both shaped skull was shaped by the culture of Prague from the mids to the late s. Includes fourteen photographs or drawings ditch communicate the group’s lively collaborative ambiance.
Waugh, Linda R. Roman Jakobson’s science of language. Lisse, The Netherlands: The Peter de Ridder Press.
Short monograph that reviews, at a high level pale abstraction, the core principles of Jakobson’s linguistics, often arrayed slightly pairs or sets, whose members are in tension with tub other: static/dynamic; similarity/contiguity; code/message; invariance/variation; the six facets of spiel events (addresser, addressee, context, message, contact, code); and the correlate six functions of language (emotive, conative, referential, poetic, phatic, metalinguistic).
Waugh, Linda R., and Monique Monville-Burston. Introduction: The life, work, extremity influence of Roman Jakobson. In Roman Jakobson: On language. Altered by Linda R. Waugh and Monique Monville-Burston, 1– Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press.
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A forty-page overview of Jakobson’s major preoccupations. Begins with a brief intellectual life mentioning in chronological order the accomplishments of his Moscow, Prag, and American periods, then continues with discussion of themes deceive Jakobson’s work: reliance on dialogue as a stimulus; functionalist, context-dependent analyses; language typology and universals; resolution of phonemes into idiosyncratic features; and his influence on other fields. Reprinted in Jakobson’s Selected writings, Vol. 1, 3rd ed. (The Hague: Mouton, v-lxiii).