Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Paul E. Gray, Welcoming Remarks -- 1. Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, Majakovskij -- The Autobiography of a Scholar / Pomorska, Krystyna -- Jakobson’s Philosophical Background / Holenstein, Elmar -- Majakovskij’s “How to Make Verses” and Jakobson’s Theory of Verse / McLean, Hugh -- The Ideological Principles of Prague School Phonology / Gasparov, Boris -- 2. Jakobson’s Linguistic Theory -- The Major Moments of Jakobson’s Linguistics / Stankiewicz, Edward -- Remarks on the Scientific Revolution in Linguistics 1926-1929 / Halle, Morris -- Roman Jakobson on Gender and Linguistic Fictions / Seiler, Hansjakob -- Linguistic Structure and Autopoiesis / Schooneveld, C. H. Van -- Roman Jakobson and His Contemporaries on Change in Language and Literature (The Teleologica! Criterion) / Liberman, Anatoly -- On the Sound Shape of Language: Mediacy and Immediacy / Waugh, Linda R. -- 3. Jakobson’s Theory of Grammar and its Application -- Jakobsonian Markedness Theory as Mathematical Principle / Andrews, Edna -- Jakobson’s Cube as Objet d’Art and as Scientific Model / Chvany, Catherine V. -- 4. Jakobson’s Poetics -- Roman Jakobson: The Unity of His Thought on Verbal Art / Brown, Edward J. -- The Aesthetic Semiotics of Roman Jakobson / Winner, Thomas G. -- 5. Jakobson’s Poetic Laboratory -- Jakobson-Aljagroν and Futurism / Rudy, Stephen -- Intimations of a Linguist: Jakobson as Poet / Vallier, Dora -- 6. Towards the History of Jakobson’s International Activities -- Sociological Concerns in the Moscow Linguistic Circle / Matejka, Ladislav -- A Marvellous Chemical Laboratory ... and its Deeper Meaning: Notes on Roman Jakobson and the Czech Avant-Garde Between the Two Wars / Toman, Jindrich -- References -- Indexweiterlesen