"Jakobson and Halle's initial statement of the principles of linguistic organization should be made available to all future generations of linguists. It builds a solid foundation for Saussurean thinking about linguisic oppositions and establishes distinctive feature theory as the basis of their form[...]

"Roman Jakobson was one of the great minds of the modern world," Edward J. Brown has written, "and the effects of his genius have been felt in many fields: linguistics, semiotics, art, structural anthropology, and, of course, literature." At every stage in his odyssey from Moscow to Prague to Denmar[...]

?Mr Hiss, jag säger detsamma till er som jag sade till mr Chambers: Antingen ni eller mr Chambers ljuger.?
?Det är otvivelaktigt så.?
?Ja. Och den av er som ljuger är den störste skådespelare Amerika någonsin frambringat.?

1948 anklagade Whittaker Chambers, redaktör på Time, de[...]