The Moscow linguistic circle was a group of social scientists in

semiotics Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the systematic study of sign processes (semiosis) and meaning making. Semiosis is any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, where a sign is defined as anything that communicates something, ...

, literary theory, and

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Lingu ...

active in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

from 1915 to ca. 1924. Its members included Filipp Fortunatov (its founder),"Fortunatov, Filipp Fedorovich "
entry in ''The Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (1979). Roman Jakobson,

Grigoriy Vinokur Grigoriy Osipovich Vinokur (17 November, 1896, Warsaw – 17 May 1947, Moscow) was a Russian linguist and literary historian. He was educated in Moscow. After a brief spell as an interpreter in Estonia and Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, L ...

, 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

References

"Moscow Linguistic Circle (literary critic)"
entry in the Britannica Online Encyclopedia. {{DEFAULTSORT:Moscow Linguistic Circle Russian formalism Linguists from Russia Literary theory Schools of linguistics 1910s in Moscow 1920s in Moscow