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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; PART I. THE WORLD INTO WHICH HE WAS BORN; 1. Rising to prominence; Switzerland and its neighbour, Geneva; The noble Saulxures of Lorraine; In Monsieur Calvin's Geneva; Becoming bourgeois; Horace-Bénédict de Saussure; Reforming the Collège de Genève; The glory of Mont Blanc, the infamy of the Revolution; 2. His grandparents' and parents' generations; The Congress of Vienna; Albertine Necker de Saussure; Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure; Alphonse de Saussure; Fanny Crud; Count Alexandre de Pourtalès; Augusta Saladin de Crans; The Genevese Revolution of 1846-1848.
- Théodore de SaussureAdèle Pictet; Henri de Saussure; Countess Louise de Pourtalès; 3. The heritage of linguistics and semiology; Continuity and progress; The history of linguistics according to Saussure; The emergence of linguistic thought in Greece; The Christian Middle Ages; Renaissance and Enlightenment; The encounter with Sanskrit and the beginnings of comparativism; The vowels of primitive Indo-European; PART II. EARLY YEARS TO THE MÉMOIRE; 4. 1857-1873; Birth and childhood; Mons-Djémila and Henri Dunant; Hofwyl; The Franco-Prussian War; Institution Martine; Infatuation.
- Collège de Genève5. 1873-1876; First love; Gymnase de Genève; Adolphe Pictet; 'Essay for reducing the words of Greek, Latin & German to a few roots'; Tragedy and triumph; Université de Genève; 6. 1876-1878; Société de linguistique de Paris; To Leipzig; Courses at Leipzig; First publications; Indo-European a; Family matters and military service; Remembering Pictet; 7. The Mémoire on the original vowel system of the Indo-European languages; Getting there first; The Neogrammarian manifesto; Reclaiming simplicity, relocating complexity: a[sub(1)] and the sonant coefficients; Phonemes.
- Disyllabic rootsLaws and dogma; The book's reception; Möller and laryngeals; PART III. DOCTORATE AND PARIS YEARS; 8. 1879-1881; Berlin and Whitney; Retreat to Geneva, return to Leipzig; The Sanskrit genitive absolute; Voyage to Lithuania; To Paris; The École Pratique des Hautes Études; 9. 1881-1884; First courses; Inner speech and linguistic signs; Learning to teach; Dismantling the phoneme; Difference and intentionality; Adjunct Secretary; Weddings; Publications; 10. 1884-1888; 'Theoretical explanations' and 'Generalities about linguistic method and the life of language'
- Théodore de Saussure's book on the French languageTeaching; Family crisis; Lean years; 11. 1888-1891; Courtship; Friends and rivals; Leave; René de Saussure and difference; Return and adieu to Paris; PART IV. RETURN TO GENEVA; 12. 1891-1894; Inaugural lectures; Double essence; Marriage and family; Coloured hearing; The immensity of the work'; 13. 1894-1899; The International Congress of Orientalists; Pro and contra Whitney; Grief and grievances; Indogermanische Forschungen articles and other writings; The spirit world; Lectures on the syllable; 14. 1899-1903.
