"It is once again the vexing problem of……" — Roman Jakobson
"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."
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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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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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Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
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Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
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More Classification Quotes
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget…
— Roland Barthes
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Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy,…
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There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the…
— Karl Landsteiner
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Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names…
— Carl Linnaeus
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Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold…
— Camille Paglia
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The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit…
— Karl Pearson
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The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies…
— Karl Pearson
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I had the evidence that a crash did happen here....Give this information to the young people of the world and…
— Philip J. Corso
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In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the…
— Unknown Author
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Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science…
— Lancelot Hogben
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It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and…
— Ernest Nagel
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