Two aspects of language roman jakobson biography

By NASRULLAH MAMBROLon •

The work of Roman Jakobson occupies a central place in the development of Formalism and Structuralism.

Roman Jakobson and the Future of Linguistics - JSTOR

A linguist from Moscow, Jakobson co-founded the Moscow Linguistic Circle in 1915, and along with Viktor Shklovsky and Boris Eichenbaum, he was involved in yet another Russian Formalist group, the Society for the Study of Poetic Language (OPOJAZ) in 1916. In 1926, he established the Prague Linguistic Circle, which was critically engaged with the works of Saussure.

In 1943, he co-founded the Linguistic Circle of New York in America.

With the Russian Formalist’s endeavour to make literary criticism a  scientifically grounded discipline, Jakobson formulated the concept of “literariness,” a quality that makes a verbal message a work of art. Proposing a fundamental opposition between the literary and practical uses of  language, Jakobson believed that literariness is that feature that Roman Jakobson - Wikipedia COC