All Roman Jakobson Quotes
- What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology? Appoint
- Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics. Bilingualism
- In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort… Accompaniment
- It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification. Classification
- Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. Classified
- A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. Anachronism
- 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… Ambiguous
- Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic. Acoustic
- Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor… Acoustic
- At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features. Acoustics
- Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey. Convey
- Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession. Axes
- Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding. Artificial
- Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to… Cavity
- Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study… Came
- When I speak it is in order to be heard. Heard
- A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography. Era
- From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds. Articulatory
- Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components. Any
- For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of… Acute
- Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the… Acoustically
- The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all… All