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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785366203321

Autore

Bouissac Paul

Titolo

Saussure [[electronic resource] ] : a guide for the perplexed / / Paul Bouissac

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2010

ISBN

1-4411-7866-X

1-282-87102-1

9786612871023

1-4411-0567-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Collana

Guides for the perplexed series

Disciplina

410.92

Soggetti

Semiotics

Structuralism (Literary analysis)

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 (p. 148-149) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 Saussure's Last Lectures: A Primer in General Linguistics; 2 Saussure's Early Years: A Golden and Studious Adolescence; 3 Saussure in Leipzig, Berlin, and Paris: The Fast-track to Fame and Maturity; 4 The Journey Home: The Gentleman Linguist of Geneva; 5 Linguistics as a Science: Saussure's Distinction between Langue (Language as System) and Parole (Language in Use); 6 Signs, Signification, Semiology; 7 Synchrony and Diachrony; 8 The Making of a Posthumous Book: The Course in General Linguistics (1916); 9 Saussure's Double Legacy and Beyond

Appendix I: A Saussure Inventory Appendix II: The Quotable Saussure; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) is generally considered one of the main founders of modern linguistics and semiotics. The book that was derived from his teaching, the Course in General Linguistics, had a lasting impact on the intellectual life of the 20th century and remains today an object of debates and controversies. This Guide for the Perplexed introduces the reader to the ways in which Saussure developed his revolutionary insights on language in the context of the linguistics of his time.  It also provides clear definitions and



explanations of the basic notions that form the substance o