02289nam 2200565 a 450 991046111660332120200520144314.01-280-59445-497866136242840-19-163696-7(CKB)2670000000170601(EBL)886547(OCoLC)784886687(SSID)ssj0000640838(PQKBManifestationID)12220997(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000640838(PQKBWorkID)10622724(PQKB)10809442(MiAaPQ)EBC886547(Au-PeEL)EBL886547(CaPaEBR)ebr10537848(CaONFJC)MIL362428(EXLCZ)99267000000017060120111213d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSaussure[electronic resource] /John E. Joseph1st ed.Oxford Oxford Unievrsity Press20121 online resource (793 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-969565-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.""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 aLinguistsBiographyElectronic books.Linguists410Joseph John E161427MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461116603321Saussure2243287UNINA