Abstract:
This paper scrutinizes some very important rhyme conceptions from the 20th century in relation to their language theoretical presuppositions. The most considerable result of the investigation is that though the analyzed rhyme theories regard the linguistic system as autonomous and the linguistic meaning as a mental object, and therefore these theories are formal approaches to the
rhyme, they however adopt the formal theoretical vantage point flexibly, so they are harmonizable with a functional view in some measure, establishing a functional cognitive theory of rhyme.
