What's Next? Shall We Appoint Elephants To

What's Next? Shall We Appoint Elephants To Teach Zoology?

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

Now The Identification Of Individual Sounds By Phonetic Observation Is An Artificial Way Of Proceeding.

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.

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