"The 15-page preface by the eminent structural anthropologist
Claude Levi-Strauss who attended the original lectures, is a
brilliant summary and projection of Jakobson's
ideas."--"Choice"
"What makes this book valuable even now, despite the time
separating authorship from publication, is the fact that widespread
ignorance still prevails in contemporary linguistics about the
semiotic structure of the sound system of language; a careful
reading of Jakobson should ultimately improve
matters."--"Language"
"While it may be too early to totally assess Roman Jakobson's
contributions, his work over the past fifty years has had a major
impact on the study of linguistics. He is probably most well known
for his structural approach and has made important contributions to
the study of language development in children and to the study of
aphasia."This most recent publication presents another aspect of
Jakobson's scholarly activity.... In these six lectures, Jakobson
presents the basis for a theory of language which is founded on
sound and its relation to meaning. In beginning the series of
lectures, Jakobson contends that linguistic research has been
preoccupied with acoustic phonetics--research which is solely
concerned with the mechanics of sound production. As he argues...a
thorough study of language will inevitably lead to the necessity to
consider meaning in relation to sound and its
production...."Overall, these lectures by Jakobson offer
communication scholars an easily accessible introduc
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