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What is poetic function and nature of language?

POETIC FUNCTION AND NATURE OF LANGUAGE 69 3.2 Sound: "in poetry speech sounds spontaneously and immediately display their proper semantic function" (RJ & LW, 1979:222). In the poetic function, the focus on the linguistic sign as a sign and the divorce of the sign from its referent means that the texture of the sign in all its

What is the function of poetry in poetry?

POETIC FUNCTION AND NATURE OF LANGUAGE 79 meanings in poetic discourse, the use of sound figures and especially of paro- nomasia, the immediacy characteristic of the distinctive features, the poem as an autotelic system of systems of signs, the poem as a structure, the grammar of

What is the poetic function of the linguistic sign?

In the poetic function, the focus on the linguistic sign as a sign and the divorce of the sign from its referent means that the texture of the sign in all its aspects (see Ejkhenbaum, 1927/1965) is made perceptible, including that aspect of the sign which is by its very nature perceptible, namely the signans.

What are the two functions of language?

Out of the various functions of language presented by Jakobson, only two are functions as understood here. These are the poetic function and the referential function. The former seems to us to be an immediate function: It needs to be further interpreted in order to arrive at the role, or roles, played by the