Roman Jakobson

The first English translation of a classic and groundbreaking work in historical phonology. This is the first English translation of a groundbreaking 1929 work in historical phonology by the renowned linguist Roman Jakobson, considered the founder of modern structural linguistics. A revolutionary treatment of Russian and Slavic linguistics, the book introduced a new type of historical linguistics that focused on the systematic reasons behind phonological change. Rather than treating such changes as haphazard, Jakobson here presents a "teleological," purposeful approach to language evolution. He concludes by placing his book in the context of the exciting structural developments of the era, including Einstein's theories, Cezanne's art, and Lev Berg's nomogenesis. The original Russian version of the book was lost during the 1939 German invasion of Brno, Czechoslovakia, and the only edition available until now has been the French translation by Louis Brun. Thus this first English translation offers many linguists their first opportunity to read a major early work of Jakobson. Ronald Feldstein, a leading Slavicist and phonologist in his own right, has not only translated the text from French to English, he has also worked to reconstruct something as close to the missing original as possible. Feldstein's end-of-chapter annotations provide explanatory context for particularly difficult passages.

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First published in Great Britain in 1973, Main Trends in the Science of Language was part of a series of books that resulted from a study carried out by UNESCO in collaboration with national and international research centres in the social sciences, as well as with groups of individual scholars. The book examines the position of linguistics in the years surrounding the publication of the book before considering the subject’s potential, future development. It looks at linguistic vistas, the place of linguistics among the sciences of man and linguistics and natural sciences. This book will be of interest to the educated reader, research workers, and professional associations as well as to national and international institutions that organize, plan and finance scientific research.

First published in Great Britain in 1973, Main Trends in the Science of Language was part of a series of books that resulted from a study carried out by UNESCO in collaboration with national and international research centres in the social sciences, as well as with groups of individual scholars. The book examines the position of linguistics in the years surrounding the publication of the book before considering the subject’s potential, future development. It looks at linguistic vistas, the place of linguistics among the sciences of man and linguistics and natural sciences. This book will be of interest to the educated reader, research workers, and professional associations as well as to national and international institutions that organize, plan and finance scientific research.

Roman Jakobson’s ‘Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry’ (1981), that monumental work of his later years, together with its later additions, was and is a theoretical challenge both for General and Comparative Literature and for the study of individual literatures. However, the sovereign multilinguality of these linguistic analyses of poetry has not only resulted in their being received world-wide, but has also presented a seemingly insurmountable difficulty, as there is hardly a reader who is able to understand them all, let alone discuss them critically. To remedy this situation – no more and no less – is the objective of this German edition of all of Jakobson’s structuralist analyses of poems and his most important poetological essays, which have been translated and commentated by specialists from the appropriate areas of literary studies.

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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

Die Semiotik ist eines der bedeutendsten theoretischen Paradigmen des 20. Jahrhunderts, dessen Ursprünge in drei ganz unterschiedlichen Denktraditionen verankert sind: der amerikanischen um Charles Sanders Peirce, der französischen um Ferdinand de Saussure und der osteuropäischen um Roman Jakobson. Gerade der Schule um Jakobson kommt das Verdienst zu, die materielle Struktur der Zeichen und deren ästhetisches Potential erschlossen zu haben. Roman Jakobson war darüber hinaus der wichtigste Mittler zwischen den verschiedenen Zentren der osteuropäischen Semiotik und eine der Schlüsselfiguren für die Entwicklung und Verbreitung der Semiotik insgesamt. Der Band enthält grundlegende Aufsätze Jakobsons zur Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, zur allgemeinen Ästhetik und zur Kultursemiotik.

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