Quote of the day
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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