![]() ![]() One fact is that Saussure, although only one among manyĢ37distinguished linguists of his day, was theįirst to recognise the particular range of theoretical questions which had to be answered if linguistics was ever to take More than half a century after his death. ![]() Saussure’s standing as the founder of modern linguistics remains unchallenged The concepts we use are creations of the language we speak. Supply the essential conceptual frameworks for men’s analysis of reality and, simultaneously, the verbal equipment for On the contrary languages themselves, collective products of social interaction, Vocal labels which have come to be attached to things and qualities already given in advance by Nature, or to ideas already In the Coursĭe linguistique générale we see this new approach clearly articulated for the first time. Of reality came to be seen as revolving about their social use of verbal signs. The revolution Saussure ushered in has rightly been described as ‘Copernican’.įor instead of men’s words being seen as peripheral to men’s understanding of reality, men’s understanding With the sole exception of Wittgenstein, no thinker has hadĪs profound an influence on the modern view of homo loquens as Saussure. Of the twentieth century known as ‘structuralism’. It is a key text not only within the development of linguistics but also in the formation of that broader intellectual movement Générale occupies a place of unique importance in the history of Western thinking about man in society. ![]()
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