Quote by Roman Jakobson Download Open image ““Linguista sum, linguistici nihil a me alienum puto.”” — Roman Jakobson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“A language brings with it a mass of perceptions, clichés, judgements and inspirations.” — Nicholas Ostler Copy Share Image
“We are the creature of language, and through language we affirm ourselves, we find out about the world, including ourselves, through words, and we… — Robert Coles Copy Share Image
“Languages are like beings: they thrive, take a dive, and need care to survive.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“Nicio descriere poetica a apei n-a potolit niciodata setea nimanui” — Henriette Yvonne Stahl 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
