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.

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

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.

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

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.