Jakobson
Americannoun
noun
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Jakobson says he could strum his guitar and make up a song on the spot about the flies that happened to land on his arm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2019
“In no country is there such a profound rift between business community and security,” said Linda Jakobson, founding director of China Matters, a nonprofit policy group based in Sydney.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2019
The pioneering structuralist Roman Jakobson had famously promulgated six functions to language, but he hinted at the possible existence of a seventh, one in which words acquired the persuasive force of incantations or magic spells.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2017
The definitive study on “mama and papa” as universal terms was conducted by Russian linguist Roman Jakobson.
From Salon ● May 13, 2013
Jakobson refused to ascertain any "private property" in the praxis of language.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
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