Jakobson
Americannoun
noun
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Manson saw Wilson, Jakobson and Melcher as his tickets to fame and fortune.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2019
“What I remember is this rivetingly beautiful dark-haired creature beavering away in her cubbyhole,” said Barbara Jakobson, a longtime Museum of Modern Art trustee.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 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 Jakobson study predates the feminist movement, and doesn’t touch much on the role of men as primary care givers.
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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