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Saussure and the will [PDF]

open access: possibleSemiotica, 2017
AbstractIn his Geneva lectures in November 1891, Saussure stated a sort of “paradox of the will,” saying: “Can linguistic facts be said to be the result of acts of will? That is the question. The current science of language gives a positive answer. However, one should add immediately that … the linguistic act, if I might call it that, is characterized ...
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Jakobson's Saussure

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 1997
L'histoire de la linguistique du 20 e siecle est remarquable pour le nombre de linguistes qui ont initialement accepte un cadre theorique particulier pour conduire leurs etudes, et qui ont finalement trouve que le cadre en question constituait une entrave dont il fallait se liberer.
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Saussure

1991
The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) has exerted a profound influence not only on twentieth century linguistics but on a whole range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. His central thesis was that the primary object in studying a language is the state of that language at a particular time – a so-called synchronic ...
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Saussure and Chomsky

2022
Saussure and Chomsky, the two major figures in linguistics of the twentieth century and beyond, have often been compared. The collection of bilingual English and French papers of this volume offers different perspectives, defended by two generations of researchers, on what brings together and distinguishes the Saussurean and Chomskyan theories.
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Saussure and the Soviets

2019
Abstract Chapter 4 focuses on three particular linguists, all of whom consider whether, from the perspective of Saussure’s work, a linguistic revolution is possible. One, S. I. Kartsevskii, does not want such a revolution and believes Saussure tells us why it is not possible. Another, G. O.
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Saussure and the psychic

Semiotica, 2017
AbstractSaussure’s mid-career involvement in psychologist Theodore Flournoy’s study of the renowned psychic Catherine Elise Müller (alias Hélène Smith) brought him into contact with imaginary languages. Flournoy asked Saussure to see what he could make of some transcriptions of Müller’s trance induced speech, which she had claimed was in Sanskrit or ...
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Saussure’s unfinished semantics

2004
Saussure as pragmatician? Saussure's position with respect to meaning cannot be discussed without an in-depth analysis of the original texts, that is the students' notes from the lectures on general linguistics and writings by Saussure himself on general linguistics.
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The future of Saussure

Semiotica, 2017
Abstract Saussure’s theory of language as a process of differential and contextual signifying opens up the possibility of analyzing and interpreting not just verbal language but all phenomena taken to be significant, whether verbal, visual, acoustical or otherwise accessed.
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