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

• Autore: Joseph John Earl
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford Unievrsity Press, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (793 p.)
• Disciplina: 410
• Soggetto topico: Linguists
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Saussure
• ISBN: 0-19-163697-5; 1-280-59445-4; 9786613624284; 0-19-163696-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790150603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II