Whom did Roman Jakobson massively influence with his work?
Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes
Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud
Noam Chomsky and Walter Benjamin
Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault
Answer
Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes were both heavily influenced by the work of Roman Jakobson. Jakobson was a linguist who developed a theory of language that focused on the relationship between sound and meaning. This theory had a profound impact on Lévi-Strauss's work on structural anthropology, which sought to understand the underlying structures of human culture.
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