Moscow linguistic circle

{{Short description|Group of social scientists in semiotics}}

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The Moscow linguistic circle was a group of social scientists in semiotics, literary theory, and linguistics active in Moscow from 1915 to ca. 1924. Its members included Roman Jakobson (its founder),{{Cite book |last=J. A. Cuddon & M. A. R. Habib |title=Dictionary of Literay terms & Literary theory |publisher=[penguin group] |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-141-04715-7 |edition=5th |location=Great Britain |publication-date=2014 |pages=286 |language=english}} Filipp Fortunatov, Grigoriy 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.