Roman Osipovich Jakobson (1896–1982) was a Russian-born linguist, literary theoretician, and semiotician.

Biography and Major Works

Jakobson was born on October 11, 1896, in Moscow and died on July 18, 1982, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As an undergraduate at the ...

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