The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.
The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent. - Roman Jakobson
The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.
- Roman Jakobson
Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics. - Roman Jakobson
Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology? - Roman Jakobson
What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession. - Roman Jakobson
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens… - Roman Jakobson
The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens…
When I speak it is in order to be heard. - Roman Jakobson
When I speak it is in order to be heard.
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. - Roman Jakobson
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography. - Roman Jakobson
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. - Roman Jakobson
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
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