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 the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
