onal rhetoric. ?2) Russian Formalism and Prague School Structuralism: there is one particular field of academy inquiry, from the early twentieth century, that has had a more direct and lasting impact on the methods of contemporary stylistics. This field extends across two interrelated movements in linguistics, known as Russian Formalism and Prague School Structuralism.РAmong all the key figures in these two movements, one scholar, whose work actually links both movements, is Roman Jakobson, who moved from the Moscow circle to the Prague group in 1920. Many of the central ideas of these two schools have greatly influenced contemporary stylistics and two of the more durable theoretical contributions are the focus: the notion of foregrounding and the notion of the poetic function in language.