Dialogues

by Jakobson, Roman; Pomorska, Krystyna

• ISBN13: 9780262600163
• ISBN10: 0262600161
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-03-18
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

These conversations between two linguistic scholars who were also husband and wife cover such topics as the characterization of the phoneme, symbolist poetry, the genetic basis of language, linguistic universals, semiotic systems, and aphasia and the process of language acquisition by children. In an afterword Pomorska describes Jakobson's acquaintances, friendships, and collaborations with international poets and artists.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
By Way of Preface	p. xiii
The Path toward Politics	p. 1
Approaches to Folklore	p. 12
Verse and the Sounds of Language	p. 19
The Role of Consonants in the Discovery of Phonemic Oppositions	p. 27
The Effects of International Experience on the Development of Linguistic Theory	p. 35
General Issues of Sounds in Language	p. 53
The Time Factor in Language and in Literature	p. 56
The Factor of Space	p. 79
Time in the Framework of Signs	p. 81
The Concept of the Mark	p. 93
Parallelism	p. 99
Poetry and Grammar	p. 110
Similarity and Contiguity in Language and Literature, in the Cinema, and in Aphasia	p. 125
The Biography of the Poet, Poetry and Myth	p. 136
Semiotics	p. 152
Afterword	p. 159
Bibliography	p. 185
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