Edmund Leach on Roman Jakobson's Contributions to Linguistics
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Distinctive Feature Theory in Anthropology
Distinctive feature theory in its pure form is concerned with phonology and nothing but phonology. Jakobson repeatedly encouraged non-linguistic to devise analogous theories in other fields of inquiry. He himself seems to be in good deal happier with the reductionism by which Livestro's conceived of systems of social relationship as structures of binary coded messages then are many of my anthropological colleagues.
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