Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.
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Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.Roman Jakobson
When I speak it is in order to be heard.
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At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
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Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.
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In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.
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