Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language (or communication functions), according to which an effective act of verbal communication can be described...
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ethnography of communication developed by Dell Hymes and the semiotics of culture developed by Jakobson's former student Michael Silverstein. Jakobson's concept...
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Metalanguage (redirect from Meta language)
Category theory – General theory of mathematical structures Jakobson's functions of language – Theory of language Language-oriented programming – programming...
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Fuzzy concept (redirect from Fuzzy language)
George Klir Identity (Philosophy) Interval finite element Jakobson's functions of language Linear partial information Many-valued logic Multiset Neuro-fuzzy...
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Linguistics (redirect from Study of language)
of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), morphology (structure of words)...
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Phatic expression (redirect from Phatic language)
category of "small talk" (conversation for its own sake) in speech communication, where it is also called social grooming. In Roman Jakobson's typology of communication...
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Fiction theory (section Roman Jakobson and linguistics)
According to Jakobson's model, art is created when the message itself (which carries the poetic function) is stressed. This model functions in conjunction...
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typological satisfying Jakobson's condition of genetic interpretability. Simons, Gary F.; Charles D. Fennig, eds. (2018). "Bibliography of Ethnologue Data Sources"...
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Pragmatics (redirect from Formalization of pragmatics)
(alternatively called "metalinguistic" or "reflexive") Function is the use of language (what Jakobson calls "Code") to discuss or describe itself. There is...
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Paradigmatic analysis (section Jakobson and Ritchie)
world. Roman Jakobson's model on the functions of language has two levels of description: the various component elements forming language, and what humans...
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the nature of the verbal exchange between analyst and patient in the context of Roman Jakobson's (1976, 1990) typology of the six functions of "the speech...
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Metaphor and metonymy (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
couple as representing the possibilities of linguistic selection (metaphor) and combination (metonymy); Jakobson's work became important for such French...
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Functional linguistics (redirect from Function (language))
response to Jakobson's call for an 'implicational typology'. While North American functionalism was initially influenced by the functionalism of the Prague...
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Language attrition is the process of decreasing proficiency in or losing a language. For first or native language attrition, this process is generally...
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shows how it functions as a single, conjoined system. These systems illustrate the point that vocabulary, syntax, and other aspects of language knowledge...
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Literariness (category Articles with topics of unclear notability from January 2012)
distinguishing between six functions of language: the emotive, referential, phatic, metalingual, conative and poetic function (Zwaan 1993, p. 7) . To Jacobson...
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Phonology (redirect from Sound system of a language)
the branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their phonemes or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The...
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concerning what functions communication plays, how much it is realized, and the behavior used to communicate. Common functions include the fields of courtship...
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Four-sides model (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
ISBN 978-0393010091. Bühler, Karl (2011) [1st pub. 1934]. Theory of Language: The Representational Function of Language. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: Benjamins. ISBN 9789027211828...
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Translation (redirect from Language translation)
to Jakobson's. He considered rhymed, metrical, versed poetry to be in principle untranslatable and therefore rendered his 1964 English translation of Alexander...
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Stylistics (redirect from Stylistics (Language))
Jakobson's lecture is often credited with being the first coherent formulation of stylistics, and his argument was that the study of poetic language should...
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Condensation (psychology) (category Articles containing German-language text)
displacement to metonymy. Jakobson's work encouraged Jacques Lacan to say that the unconscious is structured like a language. Cathexis Complex (psychology)...
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and topical guide to linguistics: Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. Linguistics...
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Code-switching (redirect from Language switching)
code-switching or language alternation occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation...
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Phoneme (category Articles containing Icelandic-language text)
A phoneme is a sound or a group of different sounds perceived to have the same function by speakers of the language or dialect in question. An example...
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Metaphor (redirect from Metaphorical language)
with other types of figurative language, such as antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy, and simile. According to Grammarly, "Figurative language examples include...
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Nonverbal communication (redirect from Nonverbal language)
communication is the transmission of messages or signals through a nonverbal platform such as eye contact (oculesics), body language (kinesics), social distance...
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Meaning (philosophy) (redirect from Meaning (philosophy of language))
semiotics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and metasemantics—meaning "is a relationship between two sorts of things: signs and the kinds of things they intend...
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Semiotics (category Philosophy of language)
by Roman Jakobson between "introversive semiosis, a language which signifies itself," and extoversive semiosis, the referential component of the semiosis...
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Features and their Correlates. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Jakobson, Roman; Halle, Morris (1971). Fundamentals of Language. The Hague: Mouton....
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