Recensione a Roman Jakobson, Lo sviluppo della semiotica e altri saggi.

The article focuses on Roman Jakobson's pivotal role in the formation of contemporary semiotics, highlighting his intellectual trajectory and influence on the discipline's development between the 1950s and 1970s. It discusses how Jakobson acted as a catalyst by integrating diverse paradigms from linguistics, literature, aesthetics, and media studies, and by bridging structuralist approaches with the semiotic philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce. The text also examines Jakobson's efforts to distinguish semiotics from Saussurean linguistics, favoring a broader hermeneutic conception of signs, and notes the intellectual context involving figures like Ferdinand de Saussure, Benveniste, Hjelmslev, and Husserl. Additionally, it reflects on the historical and philosophical foundations of semiotics as traced by Jakobson in his foundational addresses and writings.