
Top 40 Jakobson Quotes
#2. Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
Roman Jakobson
#3. Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.
Roman Jakobson
#4. Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.
Roman Jakobson
#6. The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.
Roman Jakobson
#7. Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
Roman Jakobson
#8. 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.
Roman Jakobson
#9. In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.
Gustavo Dudamel
#11. Everything is nicer if you feel you're in love.
Andrea Corr
#12. The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.
Roman Jakobson
#13. Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it.
Roman Jakobson
#14. Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it.
Alan Bennett
#15. From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.
Roman Jakobson
#16. All that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever (I John 2:16, 17) .
A.W. Tozer
#17. When people grow old and look back on their lives, they don't regret what they did, they regret what they didn't do.
Joan Caraganis Jakobson
#18. At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
Roman Jakobson
#19. Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.
Roman Jakobson
#20. 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.
Roman Jakobson
#21. Lee leaned closer to her and swore he could smell fear coming off her in waves, the way a shark smells blood in the water
Pamela K. Kinney
#22. We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
Ani DiFranco
#23. He doesn't know what is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him it he looks at it too clearly.
Margaret Atwood
#24. What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?
Roman Jakobson
#25. Tolerance is that important but subordinate virtue by which, instructed in our own weakness, we bear with what is bad without pretending that it is good. We bear with it provisionally, even if sometimes there is nothing we can do about it or ever will be able to do about it. It
Anthony Esolen
#26. We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#27. Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
Roman Jakobson
#28. A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
Roman Jakobson
#29. For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.
Roman Jakobson
#30. To show the American woman herself off to best advantage - that has always been my aim and that is my real biography.
Hattie Carnegie
#31. 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.
Roman Jakobson
#32. Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
Roman Jakobson
#33. Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
Roman Jakobson
#34. 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.
Roman Jakobson
#35. Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.
Roman Jakobson
#36. I'm doubly sorry for your loss," the old monk began after a time. "First, because every son should have a chance to know his father, not as a child knows his protector, but as a man knows another man.
Brian Staveley
#37. There is something very attractive about blonds, especially for brunettes. Its been said that blonds are loved and brunettes do the loving.
Joan Juliet Buck
#38. The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.
Roman Jakobson
#39. A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
Roman Jakobson
#40. My wife, like many women, actually LIKES wrapping things. If she gives you a gift that requires batteries, she wraps the batteries separately, which to me is very close to being a symptom of mental illness.
Dave Barry
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