Poetic Language Quotes by Roman Jakobson

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• What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?
• Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
• In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and…
• It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no…
• Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
• A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
• The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and…
• Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
• Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound,…
• At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
• Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.
• Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

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