Textual Closure and Literary Form

The process whereby word forms, whether spoken, written, or gestured (signed), are linked to meaning/semantics is irreducibly computational.

A complete text is well-formed if and only if its meaning is resolved once the last word form has been taken up.It is in this context that Roman Jakobson’s poetic function may be considered a principle of literary form.* * * * * See Jakobson’s Poetic Function and Literary Form, New Savanna, blog post, September 7, 2017: https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2017/09/jakobsons-poetic-function-and-literary.html

Jakobson’s poetic function as a computational principle, on the trail of the human mind, New Savanna, blog post, September 19, 2017: https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2017/09/jakobsons-poetic-function-as.html