Lemma | expression |
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Categoria grammaticale | N |
Lingua | inglese |
Sigla | Martinet (1962) |
Titolo | A Functional View of Language |
Sinonimi | |
Rinvii | communication (inglese) |
Traduzioni | |
Citazioni | Communication is, of course, involved in the artistic uses we make of language, and what is not communication there belongs to the expression, a phrase which, in technical parlance, we should reserve to self-centred linguistic activity which does not aim at transferring information from speaker to hearer, but to give the former relief from internal pressures and tension of all sort. The phoneme has a phonic shape, but no meaning. It is pure manifestation and belongs exclusively to the plane of expression. |