Moscow linguistic circle

The Moscow linguistic circle was a group of important thinkers in semiotics, literary theory, and linguistics active in Moscow from 1915 to ca. 1924. Its members included Filipp Fedorovich Fortunatov (its founder),^[1] Roman Jakobson, Grigory Vinokur, Boris Tomashevsky, and Petr Bogatyrev. The group was a counterpart to the St. Petersburg linguistic group OPOJAZ; between them, these two groups (together with the later Prague linguistic circle) were responsible for the development of Russian formalist literary semiotics and linguistics.

References

1. "Fortunatov, Filipp Fedorovich ": entry in The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979).

• "Moscow Linguistic Circle (literary critic)": entry in the Britannica Online Encyclopedia.