Practice question · True or false
Jakobson held that the poetic function is present only in poems.
Hints
- He described it as a function of language, present in different proportions in different utterances.
- Slogans, jokes and names show it strongly without being poems.
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False
Why
False. The poetic function is one of six functions and can dominate anywhere, his own example is the slogan "I like Ike", whose whole force is phonetic equivalence. What makes a poem is that the function dominates, not that other utterances lack it.
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