Practice question · Numerical answer
The Moscow Linguistic Circle was founded in 1915 and Jakobson formulated literariness in 1921. How many years separate them?
Hints
- Subtract the earlier date from the later one.
- 1921 minus 1915.
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6
Why
Six years. The gap is worth noticing: the circles came first and the slogan afterwards. Formalism began as a group of linguists and students reading verse technically, and the programmatic statements were written to describe work already being done rather than to launch it.
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