Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale was posthumously composed by his students from the notes they had made at his lectures. The book became one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, giving direction to modern linguistics and inspiration to literary and cultural theory. Before he died Saussure told friends he was writing up the lectures himself but no evidence of this was found. Eighty years later in 1996 a manuscript in Saussure's hand was discovered in the orangerie of his family house in Geneva. This proved to be the missing original of the great work. It is published now in English for the first time in an edition edited by Simon Bouquet and Rudolf Engler, and translated and introduced by Carol Sanders and Matthew Pires, all leading Saussure scholars. The book includes an earlier discovered manuscript on the philosophy of language, Saussure's own notes for lectures, and a comprehensive bibliography of major work on Saussure from 1970 to 2004. It is remarkable that for eighty years the understanding of Saussure's thought has depended on an incomplete and non-definitive text, the sometimes aphoristic formulations of which gave rise to many creative interpretations and arguments for and against Saussure. Did he, or did he not, see language as a-social and a-historical? Did he, or did he not, rule out the study of speech within linguistics? Was he a reductionist? These disputes and many others can now be resolved on the basis of the work now published. This reveals new depth and subtetly in Saussure's thoughts on the nature and complex workings of language, particularly his famous binary oppositions between form and meaning, the sign and what is signified, and language (langue) and its performance (parole).

Writings in General Linguistics

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de, Saussure Ferdinand

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Oxford University Press

The founder of modern linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure inaugurated semiology, structuralism, and deconstruction and made possible the work of Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, thus enabling the development of French feminism, gender studies, New Historicism, and postcolonialism. Based on Saussure's lectures, Course in General Linguistics (1916) traces the rise and fall of the historical linguistics in which Saussure was trained, the synchronic or structural linguistics with which he replaced it, and the new look of diachronic linguistics that followed this change. Most important, Saussure presents the principles of a new linguistic science that includes the invention of semiology, or the theory of the "signifier," the "signified," and the "sign" that they combine to produce.This is the first critical edition of Course in General Linguistics to appear in English and restores Wade Baskin's original translation of 1959, in which the terms "signifier" and "signified" are introduced into English in this precise way. Baskin renders Saussure clearly and accessibly, allowing readers to experience his shift of the theory of reference from mimesis to performance and his expansion of poetics to include all media, including the life sciences and environmentalism. An introduction situates Saussure within the history of ideas and describes the history of scholarship that made Course in General Linguistics legendary. New endnotes enlarge Saussure's contexts to include literary criticism, cultural studies, and philosophy.

Saussure

Bloomsbury Academic

Memoire Sur Le Systeme Primitif Des Voyelles Dans Les Langues Indo-Europeennes (1887) (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Mélanges De Linguistique Offerts À M. Ferdinand De Saussure

Nabu Press

Mémoire Sur Le Système Primitif Des Voyelles Dans Les Langues Indo-Européennes (French Edition)

History

Monument des sciences humaines, le «Cours de linguistique générale» de Ferdinand de Saussure, publié en juin 1916 chez Payot, a 100 ans et passe pour la première fois en poche avec une préface de Jean-Didier Urbain, sémiologue, qui éclaire à la fois l'homme Saussure, son projet scientifique, ses principaux concepts, sa réception en France comme à l'étranger, et les enjeux, aujourd'hui, d'un «Cours» qui entendait poposer une nouvelle façon de penser la langue, donc l'être humain.

Cours de linguistique générale

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Payot *

Cours de linguistique générale (French Edition)

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