Saussure
In a language there are only differences without positive terms. Whether we take the signified or the signifier, the language contains neither ideas nor sounds that pre-exist the linguistic system, but only conceptual differences and phonic differences issuing from this system. (From the posthumous Course in General Linguistics, 1916.)No one becomes as famous as Saussure without both admirers and detractors reducing them to a paragraph's worth of ideas that can be readily quoted, debated, memorized, and examined. One can argue the ideas expressed above - that language is composed of a system of acoustic oppositions (the signifier) matched by…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-163697-4
- EAN: 9780191636974
- Produktnummer: 13998060
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 18'324 KB
Über den Autor
John E. Joseph is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Head of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Language and Politics (2006), Language and Identity (2004) and, with Nigel Love and Talbot J. Taylor, Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II: The Western Tradition in the Twentieth Century (2001). He is also the editor of Language and Politics: Major Themes in English Studies, 4 Vl (2010) and(with Talbot J. Taylor) of the journal Language & Communication.
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