"Every linguistic sign is located on two axes:……" — Roman Jakobson
"Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession."
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22 Quotes by Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson has 22 quotes on this site.
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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…
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It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can…
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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in…
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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…
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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…
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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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Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
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More Axes Quotes
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We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever…
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To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself…
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There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world…
— Louise Bogan
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An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of…
— Linus Pauling
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I've been playing the CNN Drinking Game, have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George…
— Doug Stanhope
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Whether it's the Axis of Evil, or the evils of eating meat, it is a concept that has all but…
— Corey Taylor
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What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes
— Franklin P. Adams
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It could just be a shift on the axis.
— Unknown Author
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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