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Roman Jakobson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

Henry Kučera
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Obituary
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Language , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , December 1983 , pp. 871 - 883
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Copyright © 1983 by Linguistic Society of America

References

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Major studies dealing with Jakobson's work have been written by Elmar Holenstein, Roman Jakobson's approach to language (English translation, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976), by Linda R. Waugh, Roman Jakobson's science of language (Lisse: de Ridder, 1976), and by Rodney B. Sangster, Roman Jakobson and beyond (Berlin: Mouton, 1982).Google Scholar
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