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A Linguist Deaf To The Poetic Functions Of Language And A Literary Scholar Indifferent To Linguistics Are Equally Flagrant Anachronisms.

The Function Of Poetry Is To Point Out That The Sign Is Not Identical To The Referent.

The Poetic Function Is The Set Towards The Message Itself, Focus On The Message For Its Own Sake Which By Promoting The Palpability Of Signs, Deepens The Fundamental Dichotomy Of Signs And Objects.

It Is Once Again The Vexing Problem Of Identity Within Variety; Without A Solution To This Disturbing Problem There Can Be No System, No Classification.

Acoustic Phonetics, Which Is Developing And Increasing In Richness Very Rapidly, Already Enables Us To Solve Many Of The Mysteries Of Sound, Mysteries Which Motor Phonetics Could Not Even Begin To Solve.