Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey. - Roman Jakobson - Quotesmemo.com

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Roman Jakobson

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.

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The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

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When I speak it is in order to be heard.

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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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A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

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