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— Roman Jakobson

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22 Quotes by Roman Jakobson

Roman Jakobson has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can…
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in…
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…
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…
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.
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

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What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint… — Michele Bachmann
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But I am pro-life and will intend, if I’m president of the United States, to encourage pro-life policies. [...] And… — Mitt Romney
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It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact,… — Darrell Issa
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful. — Louis XIV
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How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator… — John Bevere

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