Moscow linguistic circle
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The Moscow linguistic circle was a group of social scientists in semiotics, literary theory, and linguistics active in Moscow from 1915 to ca. 1924. Its members included Filipp Fortunatov (its founder),[1] Roman Jakobson, Grigoriy Vinokur, Boris Tomashevsky, and . The group was a counterpart to the St. Petersburg linguistic group OPOJAZ; between them, these two groups (together with the later Prague linguistic circle) were responsible for the development of Russian formalist literary semiotics and linguistics.
References[]
- ^ "Fortunatov, Filipp Fedorovich ": entry in The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979).
- "Moscow Linguistic Circle (literary critic)": entry in the Britannica Online Encyclopedia.
Categories:
- Russian formalism
- Linguists from Russia
- Literary theory
- Schools of linguistics
- 1910s in Moscow
- 1920s in Moscow