Quote of the day
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a world without physicists. And physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Roman Jakobson
Born: October 11, 1896
Died: July 18, 1982 (aged 85)
Bio: Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian American linguist and literary theorist.
Known for:
- Fundamentals of Language (1956)
- On Language
- The framework of language (1980)
- Language in Literature (1980)
- Verbal art, verbal sign, verbal time