Auxiliary questions (Jakobson)

According to the author:

 What motivates the creation of this essay?
 How can a discourse develop?
 How can aphasia influence the development of a discourse?
 What is the difference between substitutive and predicative responses?
 What is the basis for one’s “personal style”?
 Can the difference between the romantic, symbolic, and realistic schools of literature be
defined along the lines of metonymy and metaphor?
 Why does the author refer to Russian folk tales and wedding songs?
 In what way does Frazer group magic rites?
 What is the difference between the way romanticism and realism are analysed?
 Is there a metaphoric/metonymic boundary between prose and poetry?
 What is the “illness” of literary criticism?
According to you:
 What do you know about Ferdinand de Saussure?
 Could you place the different genres of literature along the two poles of metonymy and
metaphor? If yes, can you do so in an absolute, or a relative way?
 Is Roman Jakobson a linguist or a literary critic?
 Who is B. Balazs?
 Which do you think you have learnt more from – body text or footnotes & endnotes?

Words to look for

aphasia semantic similarity vs contrast

language disorder personal style
selection vs combination objective criterion
metaphor sign systems
synecdoche cubism vs surrealism
metonymy filmic simile
contiguity first name vs patronymic
similarity disorder verbal hypostasis
contexture deficiency split personality
contiguity disorder displacement vs condensation
metalinguistic operation identification vs symbolism
cultural pattern imitative vs contagious magic
linguistic predilection sign vs referent
substitute vs complement grammatical vs anti-grammatical vs agrammatical
synonym vs antonym vs metaphor poetry vs prose