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...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford
2012.
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Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34685352*spi |
Sumario: | "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. |
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Notas: | Léopold de Saussure's colonial linguistics. |
Descripción Física: | 793 p. |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780191636967 9781280594458 |