Course in General Linguistics

Posted on 10 January 2018 by Ferdinand de Saussure

The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students notes after Saussure s death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach Saussure s new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such diverse areas as art, architecture, folklore, literary criticism, New Download Kindle ePUB Course in General Linguistics By Ferdinand de Saussure – kino-fada.fr image error Q I ve recently become particulary interested in structural linguistics,specifically laryngeal theory I m wondering if anyone has read something on why the original laryngeals have disappeared assuming they existed, of course.And then my A All I m familiar with regarding structural linguistics is the foundational text of Saussure s, Course in General Linguistics, which when I read it a few year ago I mostly found to be tedious and unsurprising I can appreciate it as a image error Q I ve recently become particulary interested in structural linguistics,specifically laryngeal theory I m wondering if anyone has read something on why the original laryngeals have disappeared assuming they existed, of course.And then my A All I m familiar with regarding structural linguistics is the foundational text of Saussure s, Course in General Linguistics, which when I read it a few year ago I mostly found to ...19 19 Incontournable L ouvrage charniere de toute oeuvre scientifique futur du XX siecle L ouvrage qui devance toute pensee structurale, son auteur n ayant meme conscient d aucun de ses effets Une science nouvelle d une interpretation due a l etat inherent Car Ferdinand de Saussure n a pas eu l intention de le publier tel quel de prime abord Car ce sont ses cours que deux de ses etudiants les plus doues ont reunis et soumis a une publication, apres sa mort en 1916.Le livre est plein de nouveaute Incontournable L ouvrage charniere de toute oeuvre scientifique futur du XX siecle L ouvrage qui devance toute pensee structurale, son auteur n ayant meme conscient d aucun de ses effets Une science nouvelle d une interpretation due a l etat inherent Car Ferdinand de Saussure n a pas eu l intention de le publier tel quel de prime abord Car ce sont ses cours que deux de ses etudiants les plus doues ont reunis et soumis a une publication, apres sa mort en 1916.Le livre est plein de nouveautes par rapport a la situation linguistique de son temps et precedente La langue comme un syst...c cu n n y th v h n m nh t ng, s ch vi t r r ng, c ng, tr ng i m th c nh c l i k nh ng kh ng nh m, h nh minh h a v v d tuy t v i Ph i n i l i l gi o tr nh n y l do t ch n truy n c a Saussure bi n t p l i t c c b i gi ng c a ng.G i m 1 i m y th ai c h ng c kh ng t l u bi t l Saussure xem x t ng n ng nh m t h th ng c u tr c, th c th n l g l h th ng c a ...Can t believe it took me so long to read this It s so foundational to so much theory, and when you read it you will see how it s not the same hearing about that, but isn t that always true And only reading it did I fully realize that I wasn t reading Saussure at all, but what his students and colleagues thought was Saussure, which clearly is something different and quite collective and thus possibly cooler than Saussure So no one should just throw the name around as he s not a person anymo Can t believe it took me so long to read this It s so foundational to so much theory, and when you read it you will see how it s not the same hearing about that, but isn t that always true And only reading it did I fully realize that I wasn t reading Saussure at all, but what his students and colleagues thought was Saussure, which clearly is something different and quite collective and thus possibly cooler than Saussure So no one should just throw the name around as he s not a person any but a collection of ideas that represent the inspiration of one person as influenced and interpreted by a group of others And we don t have a name for that but we should So this effort was brilliant, though I agree with almost nothing, but the Western world sure ran with it, hey Languages are always changing, but it is impossible for humans to change them Really One word one concept Still, what he wrote is quite fascinating, and while I ve decided I m a Bakhtin Volosinov girl my...Short of calling it a pioneer text, it s difficult to really say much else about Saussure s Course in General Linguistics As dated as most of the ideas contained within this book are, most of them stand as the founding concepts of linguistics, semiotics, and structuralism Or, agrammatically apt way to put it would be to say that it is Saussure s particular methodology that has been the most influential aspect of his thought His central aim above all else is to analyze language as a syst Short of calling it a pioneer text, it s difficult to really say much else about Saussure s Course in General Linguistics As dated as most of the ideas contained within this book are, most of them stand as the founding concepts of linguistics, semiotics, and structuralism Or, agrammatically apt way to put it would be to say that it is Saussure s particular methodology that has been the most influential aspect of his thought His central aim above all else is to analyze language as a system with a structure This particular quote from pg 86 expresses his approach quite well A language is a system of which all parts can and must be considered as synchronically interdependent What this basically means is that language is a system composed of various units, with a very elab...this is fucking goldIt is almost impossible to overstate the importance of this book It is significant not only for laying down a radical vision of linguistics as a discipline for the 20th and 21st centuries, but it also lays the foundations for all modern approaches to semiotics Certainly Peirce had made a similar breakthrough in semiotics at around the same time, but his theory was not backed up by such a rich understanding of the study of linguistics its sub fields and divisions, the progress it had made, it It is almost impossible to overstate the importance of this book It is significant not only for laying down a radical vision of linguistics as a discipline for the 20th and 21st centuries, but it also lays the foundations for all modern approaches to semiotics Certainly Peirce had made a similar breakthrough in semiotics at around the same time, but his theory was not backed up by such a rich understanding of the study of linguistics its sub fields and divisions, the progress it had made, its mistaken steps and where it needed to go in the future De Saussure demonstrates that language is one semiotic and so a theoretical framework is needed that encompasses both For a book th...After wrapping up my readings of Heidegger and Husserl, I found Saussure to be rather refreshing, probably the most influential thinker on my large critical theory reading list since Gramsci Backing up just a little bit, Heidegger really seemed to have just contributed a convoluted discussion of the word Dasein and its meaning, which at different times could encompass being, revelation, existence, human being, the universe, etc I feel Heidegger is too open to interpretation and a discussion of After wrapping up my readings of Heidegger and Husserl, I found Saussure to be rather refreshing, probably the most influential thinker on my large critical theory reading list since Gramsci Backing up just a little bit, Heidegger really seemed to have just contributed a convoluted discussion of the word Dasein and its meaning, which at different times could encompass being, revelation, existence, human being, th...

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