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... →
Roman Jakobson
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the... →
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
Anna Jameson
Language is memory and metaphor.
Storm Jameson
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
Jim Jarmusch
If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as... →
Keith Jarrett
I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.
That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of... →
Ricky Jay
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
Elfriede Jelinek