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Roman Jakobson has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?
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Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
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In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and…
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It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no…
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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
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A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
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The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and…
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Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
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Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound,…
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At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
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Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.
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Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like…
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... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills…
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The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation.
— Guy Steele
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We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
— H R Haldeman
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If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.
— Betty Buckley
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Nobody wants to say that the man [Obama] is a Marxist. Okay, so he's not a Marxist. He's a progressive! This is…
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All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material…
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It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax,…
— John Searle
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Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.
— Jerry Fodor
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There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics.
— Werner Erhard
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Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are…
— Milton Steinberg
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