What was Roman Jakobson's full name?
Roman Jakobson
Roman Osipovich Jakobson
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Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian-American linguist, literary theorist, and literary critic. He is considered to be one of the founders of the field of structural linguistics. Jakobson was born in Moscow in 1896. He studied linguistics at the University of Moscow, where he was a student of the renowned linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. After graduating from university, Jakobson worked as a professor at the University of Kazan.
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