Sociological Concerns in the Moscow Linguistic Circle

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Foreword IX
4. Paul E. Gray, Welcoming Remarks XIII
5. 1. Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, Majakovskij
6. The Autobiography of a Scholar 3
7. Jakobson’s Philosophical Background 15
8. Majakovskij’s “How to Make Verses” and Jakobson’s Theory of Verse 33
9. The Ideological Principles of Prague School Phonology 49
10. 2. Jakobson’s Linguistic Theory
11. The Major Moments of Jakobson’s Linguistics 81
12. Remarks on the Scientific Revolution in Linguistics 1926-1929 95
13. Roman Jakobson on Gender and Linguistic Fictions 113
14. Linguistic Structure and Autopoiesis 123
15. Roman Jakobson and His Contemporaries on Change in Language and Literature (The Teleologica! Criterion) 143
16. On the Sound Shape of Language: Mediacy and Immediacy 157
17. 3. Jakobson’s Theory of Grammar and its Application
18. Jakobsonian Markedness Theory as Mathematical Principle 177
19. Jakobson’s Cube as Objet d’Art and as Scientific Model 199
20. 4. Jakobson’s Poetics
21. Roman Jakobson: The Unity of His Thought on Verbal Art 233
22. The Aesthetic Semiotics of Roman Jakobson 257
23. 5. Jakobson’s Poetic Laboratory
24. Jakobson-Aljagroν and Futurism 277
25. Intimations of a Linguist: Jakobson as Poet 291
26. 6. Towards the History of Jakobson’s International Activities
27. Sociological Concerns in the Moscow Linguistic Circle 307
28. A Marvellous Chemical Laboratory ... and its Deeper Meaning: Notes on Roman Jakobson and the Czech Avant-Garde Between the Two Wars 313
29. References 347
30. Index 365