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Saussure / John E. Joseph.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Joseph, John Earl.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Saussure, Ferdinand de, 1857-1913.
- Saussure, Ferdinand de.
- Linguists--Biography.
- Linguists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (793 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford Unievrsity Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-163697-5
- 1-280-59445-4
- 9786613624284
- 0-19-163696-7
- OCLC:
- 784886687
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