Semiotics General concepts Sign (relation relational complex) Code Confabulation Connotation / Denotation Encoding / Decoding Lexical Modality Representation Salience Semiosis Semiosphere Semiotic elements and sign classes Umwelt Value Fields Biosemiotics Cognitive semiotics Computational semiotics Literary semiotics Semiotics of culture Methods Commutation test Paradigmatic analysis Syntagmatic analysis Semioticians Mikhail... Read full biography of Roman Jakobson →
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... →
From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all... →
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin... →
It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no... →
Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound... →
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the... →
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... →
Semiotics General concepts Sign (relation relational complex) Code Confabulation Connotation / Denotation Encoding / Decoding Lexical Modality Representation Salience Semiosis Semiosphere Semiotic elements and sign classes Umwelt Value Fields Biosemiotics Cognitive semiotics Computational semiotics Literary semiotics Semiotics of culture Methods Commutation test Paradigmatic analysis Syntagmatic analysis Semioticians Mikhail...