Jakobson was born in Russia to a well-to-do family of Jewish descent, the industrialist Osip Jakobson and chemist Anna Volpert Jakobson, and he developed a fascination with language at a very young age. He studied at
Слайд 2 Jakobson was born in Russia to a well-to-do
family of Jewish descent, the industrialist Osip Jakobson and
chemist Anna Volpert Jakobson, and he developed a fascination with language at a very young age. He studied at the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages and then at the Historical-Philological Faculty of Moscow University.
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Influenced by the work of Ferdinand de Saussure,
Jakobson developed, with Nikolai Trubetzkoy, techniques for the analysis
of sound systems in languages, inaugurating the discipline of phonology.
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Six communication functions, each associated with a dimension
or factor of the communication process: referential (contextual information) poetic (auto-reflection) emotive