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The Seventh Function
of Language
A novel by Laurent Binet
The New York Times
online Aug. 16, 2017,
in a book review —
"What if . . . Barthes was murdered? . . . in order to
procure a document that Barthes possessed . . . .
That document explained that, beyond the six
functions of language proposed by the Russian
linguist Roman Jakobson, there was a seventh
secret one: an occult kind of language-use
guaranteed to persuade, a 'magic' power of
control over a listener."
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Schorske mentioned hopefully "the fresh light of
the present" in 1971.
Some later light from Brian Aldiss in his novel
Frankenstein Unbound , first published in 1973 —
