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.

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

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

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.

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.