"When I speak it is in order to…" — Roman Jakobson
"When I speak it is in order to be heard."
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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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Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
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In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation.…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.
— Richard Armour
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,…
— Sean Astin
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
— Jane Austen
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Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?
— Brigitte Bardot
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Nobody wanted the 'Roseanne' show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat…
— Roseanne Barr
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Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I…
— Lynda Barry
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I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is…
— Melody Beattie
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I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do…
— Glenn Beck
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
— Warren G. Bennis
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