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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461116603321

Autore

Joseph John E

Titolo

Saussure [[electronic resource] /] / John E. Joseph

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford Unievrsity Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-59445-4

9786613624284

0-19-163696-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (793 p.)

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Linguists

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The world into which he was born -- pt. 2. Early years to the mémoire -- pt. 3. Doctorate and Paris years -- pt. 4. Return to Geneva -- pt. 5. Final flourish.

Sommario/riassunto

""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