Description: Preface Editorial Method Phonetic Symbols Abbreviations Introduction: The Life, Work, and Influence of Roman Jakobson By Linda R. Waugh and Monique Monville-Burston PART I: The Science of Language: General Overviews 1. Current Issues of General Linguistics 2. Efforts toward a Means-Ends Model of Language in Inter-war Continental Linguistics 3. My Favorite Topics PART II: The Function and Structure of Language:Some Fundamental Concepts 4. The Speech Event and the Functions of Language 5. Langue and Parole: Code and Message 6. Parts and Wholes in Language 7. Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances 8. The Concept of Mark (with Krystyna Pomorska) PART III: Dimensions of Language: Invariants and Variants across Time and Space 9. Typological Studies and Their Contribution to Historical Comparative Linguistics 10. Implications of Language Universals for Linguistics 11. The Time Factor in Language (with Krystyna Pomorska) 12. The Space Factor in Language (with Krystyna Pomorska) 13. Principles of Historical Phonology 14. On the Theory of Phonological Affinities between Languages PART IV: The Sound System of Language 15. The Concept of Phoneme 16. The Concept of the Distinctive Feature (with C. Gunnar Fant and Morris Halle) 17. Quest for the Ultimate Constituents (with Linda R. Waugh) 18. The Sound Laws of Child Language and Their Place in General Phonology 19. Why "Mama" and "Papa"? PART V: Meaning in Language: Grammatical and Lexical 20. Some Questions of Meaning 21. Boas' View of Grammatical Meaning 22. Contribution to the General Theory of Case 23. Shifters and Verbal Categories PART VI: Sound and Meaning in Language: Their Interrelations 24. The Phonemic and Grammatical Aspects of Language in Their Interrelations 25. Quest for the Essence of Language 26. The Spell of the Speech Sound (with Linda R. Waugh) PART VII: The Place of Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 27. Linguistics in Relation to Other Sciences 28. Linguistics and Communication Theory 29. Brain and Language Notes References Name Index Subject Index

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