Jakobson, Linguistics and Poetics and Two Aspects of Language and two Aspects of Aphasic Disturbances notes PDF

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JAKOBSON- Linguistics and Poetics Literature as a subset of language, comparing ordinary language and literary language. How do the ways people think and talk manifest in literary style? And vice versa.  “In short, many poetic features belong not only to the science of language but to the whole theory of signs, that is, to general semiotics” 1258 Structuralism Saussure made that “cut” between speech and language, therefore implying that any particularities of speech are incidental. Jakobson argues on behalf of a deep structure also existing in speech, and brings speech back into the structural analysis of language. Argument: Jakobson defines the functions of language to give the poetic function its value in relation to the other functions. There is a structure in which select and combine words on the associative axis while knowing the order of the syntactic, and that depends on which function of language we favor. The poetic function applies to even everyday speech, not just poetry; it’s a function of language in all people. Ex. I like Ike Addresser → context / message / contact / code → Addressee Emotive → referential / poetic / phatic / metalingual → conative Interjection → → imperative  

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“Language must be investigated in all the variety of its functions” 1260 “The diversity lies not in a monopoly of some one of these several functions but in a different hierarchical order of functions. The verbal structure of a message depends primarily on the predominant function” 1261 “The poetic function is not the sole function of verbal art but only its dominant, determining function” 1264 “The selection is produced on the basis of equivalence, similarity and dissimilarity, synonymy and antonymy, while the combination, the build-up of the sequence, is based on contiguity. The poetic function projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection into the axis of combination” 1265 “In manipulating these two kinds of connection (similarity and contiguity) in both their aspects (positional and semantic)-- selecting, combining, and ranking them -- an individual exhibits his personal style, his verbal predilections and preferences” 1266 Two aspects of language...