Volume 31, Number 6 · April 12, 1984
The Master Linguist
By Joseph Frank
Dialogues
by Roman Jakobson, by Krystyna Pomorska
MIT Press, 186 pp., $15.00
No scholar of modern times has done more to revitalize the study of what has come to be called 'the human sciences'—and particularly the science of language—than Roman Jakobson; and it is good to have this summary of his career, in the form of question-and-answer sessions with his former student and then wife, Krystyna Pomorska. The sessions took place in 1980, two years before Jakobson's death. First published in French, the dialogues are now made available in English—the language in which Jakobson wrote most of his works after coming to the United States in 1941.
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