@inbook{10.3138/9781442698758.6,
 ISBN = {9780802099440},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442698758.6},
 abstract = {My use of the wordaestheticis meant to invoke not a notion of transcendent ‘beauty’ with positive ontological status, but rather the twentieth-century renovation of the word to denote the cognitive and sensory effects of all kinds of stimuli, which necessarily constitute signs.¹ In treating aesthetic effect in language, linguistic analysis, that of Roman Jakobson in particular, provides key technical tools. One of Jakobson’s definitions of the ‘poetic function’ of language is that ‘the word [is] felt as a word,’ bearing what the Indo-Europeanist Calvert Watkins calls a ‘reflexive indexical function,’ pointing to itself rather than outside itself to},
 author = {TIFFANY BEECHY},
 booktitle = {On the Aestheticsof Beowulf and Other Old English Poems},
 pages = {43--63},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {Bind and Loose: Aesthetics and the Word in Old English Law, Charm, and Riddle},
 year = {2010}
}