Advanced Linguitic Theories

1. Roman Jacobson
Presented to: Sir Muhammad Tayyab
Presented by: Aliya Arshad
Roll no: 006
Subject: Linguistic Theories
Department: English

2. The Russian Formalists were a group of
writer who flourished during the period of
Russian Revolution of 1917.
Formalism refers to critical approaches
that analyze, interpret, or evaluate the
inherent features of a text.
Focus on Form, organization, structure,
Word choice, multiple language.

3.  A school of literary criticism originated in
Russia.
 Emerged in the early 20th century.
 Originally focused in poetry.
 The Russian who developed it are called
formalists.
 Analysis of the text itself
 Readers do not need detailed contextual
knowledge beyond the text.
 The meaning is inherently conveyed in the
text’s unique form or structure.

4. Scientific approach focused on
‘literariness’ which can be found on the
level of Form rather than Content.
Art as a device of Defamiliarization.
A text is the sum total of its devices.
Aesthetics of deviation.
Literature has its own history, a history of
innovation in formal structures, and is not
determined by external, material history.

5. The work of Roman Jacobson occupies a
central and seminal place in the
development of Formalism and
Structuralism.
Roman Jacobson and fellow formalists
translated into English.
His famous work is “Linguistics and
poetics”

6. CONTEXT
ADDRESSER MESSAGE
ADDRESSEE
CONTACT
CODE

7. REFERENTIAL
EMOTIVE POETIC
CONATIVE
PHATIC
METALINGUAL

8.  Referential (context: descriptive)
 Aesthetic/Poetic(message for its own sake:
operative)
 Emotive/expressive/affective(sender: self-
expression)
 Conative(receiver, vocative or imperative)
 Phatic(channel/medium of interaction, e.g.
greetings)
 Metalingual (code: language explains
language)