COMING SOON!

Translated from the Russian by Michael Eskin

ISBN 978-1-935830-34-4 (Softcover)
ISBN 978-1-935830-35-1 (eBook)
Publication Date: April 2016

ABOUT THE BOOK AND AUTHOR

Published in 1923, On Dialogic Speech is the first study devoted entirely to the forms of speech in their concrete, social and inter-subjective manifestations. It is also the first study addressing the linguistic, psycho-physiological, pragmatic, semantic and socio-political aspects of dialogue and dialogic interaction.

Russian linguist Lev Petrovich Yakubinsky (1892-1945) attended the University of Petersburg from 1909-15, during a period of academic renewal and challenge in Russian linguistics, which had hitherto been dominated by the neogrammarian study of language. The neogrammarians’ positivist and historicist approach was contested by a range of young scholars concerned with the functional and social diversity of language as an individual and collective activity. In this heated atmosphere of re-evaluation and change Yakubinsky, together with some of his fellow students and colleagues, such as Osip Brik and Viktor B. Shklovsky, founded, in 1916, the Society for the Study of Poetic Language, thus initiating the movement that would subsequently go down in history under the moniker ‘Russian Formalism’ (without which, in turn, such schools of thought and criticism as structuralism, poststructuralism and deconstruction would be unthinkable).

COMING SOON!