What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

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.

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

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.