Roman JakobsonThinkers

Anticipation is subjective in the listener but objective in the reader who is able to, if he chooses, read the end of a letter or novel before reading the earlier parts.

A Distinctive feature is the linguistic phenomena whereby light and right sound like two words to english speakers and one to native speakers of Japanese. They are the most basic unity of phonological structure.

Intersemiotic is an interpretation of verbal signs by means of signs of nonverbal sign systems.

Language is a determined less by what it permits us to say than by what it compels us to say.

Phatic communication is the notion that human speech never merely transmits a message, it always also self-reflectively asserts the basic symbolic pact between the communicating subjects.

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Poetry is words in search of a meaning.

Realism is the idea that in order to show an object one has to deform it.

A Speech system is defined less by what it permits us to say than by what it compels us to say.