Roman Jakobson

Scientist

1896-10-11

Books by Roman Jakobson

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A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
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Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
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From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.
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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.
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Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.
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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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