Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson
Roman Osipovich Jakobsonwas a Russian–American linguist and literary theorist...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth11 October 1896
CountryRussian Federation
progress language study
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.
symbolism sound language
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.
fundamentals bilingualism language
Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
language poetic deaf
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
art poetry focus
The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.
art poetry function
The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.
two acoustics sound
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
teaching elephants next
What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?
photography eras rays
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
order speak heard
When I speak it is in order to be heard.