# Roman Jakobson **Domain:** Linguistics / Semiotics **Doc Type:** Person **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Prague Linguistic Circle]], [[Distinctive Features]], [[Markedness]], [[Information Theory]], [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] ## Definition Roman Jakobson was a linguist and Prague Circle participant whose work on phonology, communication and distinctive features shaped structural linguistics. ## Bauhaus Architects Context The article uses his work to locate formal decomposition of language while correcting the chronology: information theory preceded the 1952 binary distinctive-feature formalization. ## Backlinks - [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] - [[articles/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]]