Preface
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Introduction: The Life, Work, and Influence of Roman Jakobson and 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
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