The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.


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Be there a picnic for the devil,
an orgy for the satyr,
and a wedding for the bride.
ROMAN PAYNE
Growing up, I've had plenty of obstacles, but to be honest, I didn't always have doubters. I...
ROMAN REIGNS
We were hooked when we woke.
We had arms for each other.
But I yearned to resume
My d...
ROMAN PAYNE
Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.
ROMAN POLANSKI
to walk for kilometers without socks in boots with bloody feet.
ROMAN POLANSKI
Oliver Twist.
ROMAN POLANSKI
They see me working ... but the result of my work escaped them,
ROMAN POLANSKI
I think that something is happening definitely in Korea that is worth watching.
ROMAN POLANSKI
is against any kind of principle of show business. If you install some buttons that one can press wh...
ROMAN POLANSKI
Human life is just a given series, an endless series of such moments,
ROMAN POLANSKI
There's no other place in the world where ... we could build a 19th-century London and shoot in it f...
ROMAN POLANSKI
A lot has changed for me. My life has improved. It's not only children, but the relationship with my...
ROMAN POLANSKI
Take a look at this railing,
ROMAN POLANSKI
The worst is separation from the parents,
ROMAN POLANSKI
I did not have a reputation to defend.
ROMAN POLANSKI
the worst thing ever written about me. It is obvious that it's not true. I don't think you could fin...
ROMAN POLANSKI
I never made a film which fully satisfied me.
ROMAN POLANSKI
People like Truffaut, Lelouch and Godard are like little kids playing at being revolutionaries. I've...
ROMAN POLANSKI
the next Sharon Tate.
ROMAN POLANSKI
In consideration of the horrible things that has happened to the poor man I can almost understand......
ROMAN POLANSKI
I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ...
ROMAN PAYNE
Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary ...
ROMAN PAYNE
Did I live the spring I’d sought?
It’s true in joy, I walked along,
took part in dance...
ROMAN PAYNE
Let's not name any names... everything in due course.
ROMAN BEZSMERTNYI
In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fac...
ROMAN POLANSKI
Nothing is too shocking for me
ROMAN POLANSKI
Don't focus on the negativity. Focus on the positivity and the people that want you to do well; ...
ROMAN REIGNS
Generally, I love traveling because it's great to see new places.
JOSHUA ROMAN
I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a ...
ROMAN PAYNE
It's a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places a...
JOSHUA ROMAN
Advice from my experience, for me, I've never taken no as an answer, I don't believe in that...
ROMAN REIGNS
Wandering is the activity of the child, the passion of the genius; it is the discovery of the self, ...
ROMAN PAYNE
She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind o...
ROMAN PAYNE
Analogies are like lies.
ROMAN PAYNE
Rich will be my life if I
can keep my memories full
and brimming, and record
them ...
ROMAN PAYNE
People Pleaser, I have been there, done that! I was who someone else wanted me to be, what a disease...
NERY ROMAN
Ah, youth!
It was a beautiful night...
The moon was out of orbit.
The stars were awry...
ROMAN PAYNE
The birthing wolf,
Her heart fed with tenderness,
Gave forth from ripe brown nipples,
ROMAN PAYNE
The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you’ll wear by morning; but wear a ...
ROMAN PAYNE
Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, yo...
ROMAN PAYNE
I don't think you ever get used to seeing and marvel at the things that he does well,
ROMAN OBEN
In Sanskrit, there exists no word for ‘The Individual’ (L’Individu). En Grèce antique, il n�...
ROMAN PAYNE
Whilst the wolflets bayed,
A grave was made,
And then with the strokes of a silver spade...
ROMAN PAYNE
I took her to bed with silk and song
'Lay still, my love, I won’t be long,
I must prepar...
ROMAN PAYNE
There was no world, no land, no god or heaven or earth outside of their two bodies naked and trembli...
ROMAN PAYNE
You are like a god, like an immortal one,' she whispered to me one night in our bed, her naked body ...
ROMAN PAYNE
Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, becaus...
ROMAN PAYNE
I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my...
ROMAN PAYNE