Roman Jakobson was instrumental in the development of which approach?
Functionalism
Behaviourism
Structuralism
Cognitivism
Answer
Roman Jakobson was instrumental in the development of Structuralism, a linguistic approach that focuses on the relationships between the different elements of a language. He believed that language is a system of signs that are used to communicate meaning, and that the meaning of a word is determined by its relationship to other words in the language.
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