Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 10:24:09 EST

From: David Bergdahl bergdahl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

Subject: knife & fork



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Date: 03-Feb-1996 10:16am EST



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From: David Bergdahl Dept: English

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Subject: knife & fork





Although haj Ross may have extended the analysis, the first discussion of such

matters was Roman Jacobson's concluding remarks to the Indiana Univ conference

on Linguistics and Literature, the papers to which were edited by Sebeok. I

think the conference was in 1958; the essay is widely reprinted in stylistics

collections.



On "I think the exceptions only prove but do not destroy the rule": in the

original French of this maxim, PROUVER [= to test], the maxim is true; when the

English PROVE is substituted in the translation, it is obviously false. When

we're done with the repetitions of words frozen in form as the result of a rhyme

or the use in a proverbial saying, maybe we can discuss counterfactual

generalizations such as this which are repeated time and again as if they meant

something.



BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

David Bergdahl

Ohio University/Athens

"Where Appalachia meets the Midwest"--Anya Briggs









Received: 03-Feb-1996 10:24am