On language /Roman Jakobson ; edited by Linda R. Waugh and Monique Monville-Burston.

Jakobson, Roman, 1896-1982.,

On language /Roman Jakobson ; edited by Linda R. Waugh and Monique Monville-Burston. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)1990. - xix, 646 pages ; 25 cm.



Part I: The science of language: general overviews -- Current issues of general linguistics -- Efforts toward a means-ends model of language in interwar continental linguistics -- My favorite topics -- Part II: The function and structure of language: some fundamental concepts -- The speech event and the functions of language -- Langue and parole: code and messages -- Parts and wholes in language -- Two aspects of language and two types of aphasic disturbances -- The concept of Mark (with Krystyna Pomorska) -- Part III: Dimensions of language: invariants and variants across time and space -- Typological studies and their contribution to historical comparative linguistics -- Implications of language universals for linguistics -- The time factor in language (with Krystyna Pomorska) -- The space factor in language (with Krystyna Pomorska) -- Principles of historical phonology -- On the theory of phonological affinities between languages -- Part IV: The sound system of language -- The concept of phoneme -- The concept of the distinctive feature (withe C Gunnar Fant and Morris Halle) -- Quest for the ultimate constituents (with Linda R Waugh) -- The sound laws of child language and their place in general phonology -- Why "mama" and "papa"? -- Part V: Meaning in language: grammatical and lexical -- Some questions of meaning -- Boas' view of grammatical meaning -- Contribution to the general theory of case -- Shifters and verbal categories -- Part Virgin Islands: Sound and meaning in language: their interrelations -- The Phonemic and grammatical aspects of language in their interrelations -- Quest for the essence of language -- The spell of the speech sound (with Linda R Waugh) -- Part Virgin IslandsI: The place of language: interdisciplinary perspectives -- Linguistics in relations to other sciences -- Linguistics and communication theory -- Brain and language.



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Language and languages.

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