ABSTRACT
Jakobson’s model of the relation between text and context has been widely debated (see Scholes, pp. 24–7 and Hawkes, pp. 85–6), and usually misinterpreted. Jakobson’s two six-factor diagrams of the communicative circuit emerged into the arena of critical theory through their appearance in ‘Linguistics and Poetics’, but, like most of that paper, they had been a vital constituent of his lifetime programme of linguistic investigation. His principal objective was to provide a methodological frame work within which the intrinsic properties of poetic and non-poetic texts can be discussed. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203979839/cbd79211-31f9-4797-99d8-6afe82c1be60/content/ufig8_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
