SAUSSURE, FERDINAND DE

fĕrdēnäNˈ də sōsürˈ, 1857–1913, Swiss linguist. One of the founders of modern linguistics, he established the structural study of language, emphasizing the arbitrary relationship of the linguistic sign to that which it signifies. Saussure distinguished synchronic linguistics (studying language at a given moment) from diachronic linguistics (studying the changing state of a language over time); he further opposed what he named langue (the state of a language at a certain time) to parole (the speech of an individual). Saussure's most influential work is the Course in General Linguistics (1916), a compilation of notes on his lectures.

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The Western Tradition from Socrates to Saussure
Book by Roy Harris, Talbot J. Taylor; Routledge, 1997
Subjects: Language And Languages--Philosophy, Linguistics--History
...Cours de linguistique generale of Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) ushers in what...Sun rotating about the Earth, Saussure claims something analogous in...adjuncts to our grasp of reality, Saussure saw our understanding of reality...
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Benjamin Collins and the Provincial Newspaper Trade in the Eighteenth Century
Book by C. Y. Ferdinand; Clarendon Press, 1997
Subjects: Collins, B--(Benjamin)--1717-1785, Journalism--England--Wessex--History--18th Century, Newspaper Publishing--England--Wessex--History--18th Century, Salisbury Journal (1736)--History
...something that caught the attention of Cesar de Saussure, one eighteenth-century visitor to England...63 Cesar de Saussure, Lettre et Voyages de Mons Cesar de Saussure en Allemagne, en Hollande et en Angleterre...
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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Vol. 5
Book by Keith Brown, Anne H. Anderson, Laurie Bauer, Margie Berns, Graeme Hirst, Jim Miller; Elsevier, 2006
Subjects: Language And Languages--Encyclopedias, Linguistics--Encyclopedias
...including the periodical Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure and the related series of volumes of the Ferdinand de Saussure Circle. The Swiss scholar...Realism and Antireal- ism ; Saussure, Ferdinand (-Mongin) de (1857-1913...
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Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers
Book by Stuart Brown, Diané Collinson, Robert Wilkinson; Routledge, 1996
Subjects: Philosophers--Biography--Dictionaries, Philosophy, Modern--20th Century--Dictionaries
...questions. DIANE COLLINSON Saussure, Ferdinand de Swiss, b: 1857, Geneva...Koerner, E.F.K. (1973) Ferdinand de Saussure: The Origin and Development...Upon Words: The Anagrams of Ferdinand de Saussure , New Haven: Yale University...
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Concise Encyclopedia of Language and Religion
Book by John F. A. Sawyer, J. M. Y. Simpson, R. E. Asher; Elsevier, 2001
Subjects: Language And Languages--Religious Aspects--Encyclopedias
...1367 69. Ketcr, Jerusalem Saussure, Ferdinand(-Mongin) de (1857-1913) E. F. K. Koerner Saussure was born on November 26, 1857...generations of natural scientists, Ferdinand de Saussure was early drawn to language...
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Sanders, Carol, Ed.: The Cambridge Companion to Saussure
Journal article by Diana Ranson; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 37, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Cambridge Companion to Saussure (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...The Cambridge Companion to Saussure. by Diana Ranson Sanders...The Cambridge Companion to Saussure. Cambridge: Cambridge University...has very little to do with Ferdinand de Saussures life (1857...appeared in print, since Saussure never prepared them for publication...
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Constitutive Elements of the Discourse of Natural Instruction in Rousseau's Emile: Situations and Implications
Journal article by Guillemette Johnston; The Romanic Review, Vol. 92, 2001
Subjects: Education--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Emile (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Linguistics--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Metaphor--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rousseau, Jean-Jacques--Criticism, interpretation, etc., de Saussure, Ferdinand--Influence
...elements via concepts from Ferdinand de Saussure (5) and Roman Jakobson...the three a priori elements Saussure delineates in the speech circuit...more fully below. (5.) Ferdinand de Saussure, Cours de linguistique generale...
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Origin, Identity and the Body in David Malouf's Fiction
Journal article by Andrew Taylor; Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 19, 1999
Subjects: Malouf, David--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Memory--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Ovid--Philosophy, Psycholinguistics--Analysis, Saussure, Ferdinand--Philosophy, The Conversations at Curlow Creek (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Great World (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...all-important dividing line, into signification (Saussure 215). Levi-Strauss, pondering the same problem...Literature, U of Western Australia, 1994. 183-196. Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics. New York: McGraw...
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From Cities of Things to Cities of Signs: Urban Spaces and Urban Subjects in Sister Carrie and Manhattan Transfer
Journal article by Paula E. Geyh; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 52, 2006
Subjects: Cities and towns--Portrayals, Dos Passos, John--Criticism and interpretation, Dos Passos, John--Works, Dreiser, Theodore--Criticism and interpretation, Dreiser, Theodore--Works, Manhattan Transfer (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Sister Carrie (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Urban population--Portrayals
...clearly in light of Ferdinand de Saussures theory...65-67). Although Saussure acknowledged the arbitrary...resembles that described by Saussure. If the consumption...Cambridge UP, 1991. Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General...
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Gaudi's Architecture: A Poetic Form
Journal article by Esther Raventos-Pons; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 35, 2002
Subjects: Architecture, Modern--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Gaudi, Antoni--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...message. The theory of signs of Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Peirces general...the term architectural sign? Saussure, in fact, draws an architectural...Thames and Hudson, 1968. Saussure, Ferdinand de. "Course in General Linguistics...
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Call to Order
Magazine article by Thomas Crow, Michael Taussig, Sylvere Lotringer; Artforum International, Vol. 48, April 2010
Subjects: Levi-Strauss, Claude--Criticism and interpretation, Philosophers--Criticism and interpretation
...the "new" linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Roman Jakobson--meaning...in its own right was new. Ferdinand de Saussure had put an end to nineteenth...Linguistics, published in 1916, Saussure ventured to say that the actual...
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Tongue in Check: Paralleling the Taliban with the Amish
Magazine article by Crystal Downing; Cross Currents, Vol. 53, Summer 2003
Subjects: Islam and politics--Analysis, Islam--Analysis, Theology--Analysis
...Mikhail Bakhtin, considered a co-parent, along with Ferdinand de Saussure, of poststructuralist intertextuality. (1) Bakhtin...divergent tongues," manifest in a society. While Saussure affirmed that "In the beginning was the Word...
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Getting It All Wrong: Bioculture Critiques Cultural Critique
Magazine article by Brian Boyd; American Scholar, Vol. 75, Autumn 2006
Subjects: Criticism--Forecasts and trends, English literature--Forecasts and trends, Human evolution--Analysis, Literary criticism--Forecasts and trends, Literature teachers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...their approved forebears, especially the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. There was some excuse for Derrida in 1966, but...and minimize confusion. For the French heirs of Saussure, the principle of phonemic opposition in language...
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Marta Minujin: Talks about Minucode, 1968
Magazine article by Daniel Quiles; Artforum International, Vol. 48, April 2010
Subjects: Installations (Art)--Exhibitions, Marta, Minujin--Exhibitions
...The Raw and the Cooked," after Claude Levi-Strauss--we were reading a lot of Levi-Strauss and also Ferdinand de Saussure, and Marshall McLuhan, whose book Understanding Media was very important to us. So in Buenos Aires in 1966...
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Inventing Brands: Opportunities at the Nexus of Semiotics and Intellectual Property
Magazine article by James G. Conley, J. Duncan Berry, Laura Dewitt, Mark Dziersk; Design Management Review, Vol. 19, Spring 2008
Subjects: Brand differentiation, Intellectual property, Market research, Neurosciences, Product design, Semiotics, United States
...is the study of signs and sign systems. Its modern history commenced about a century ago in the thinking of Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), a Swiss linguist, and Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), an American scientist and logician...
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Life Class Robert Rowland Smith on the Meaning of Chocolate Go to Theschooloflife.Com
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 1, 2010
Subjects: Advertising agencies, Chocolate
...words should be intrinsically related to what they name. Yet chocolate conforms with what the modern thinker, Ferdinand de Saussure, proposed as the arbitrary nature of the sign. That is, language enjoys a merely artificial relationship to...


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encyclopedia articles on: Saussure Ferdinand De  - 5 results

 
 
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Saussure, Ferdinand De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAUSSURE, FERDINAND DE ferdenaN d sosur , 1857 1913, Swiss linguist. One of the founders...arbitrary relationship of the linguistic sign to that which it signifies. Saussure distinguished synchronic linguistics (studying language at a given...
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Linguistics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The father of modern structural linguistics was Ferdinand de Saussure , who believed in language as a systematic structure...have gained importance. Bibliography See F. de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics (tr. 1966); J...
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Semiotics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...SEMIOTICS or semiology, discipline deriving from the American logician C. S. Peirce and the French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure . It has come to mean generally the study of any cultural product (e.g., a text) as a formal system of signs...
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Structuralism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...use from the early 20th cent. in a variety of fields, especially linguistics , particularly as formulated by Ferdinand de Saussure and Roman Jakobson . Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss used structuralism to study the kinship systems of different...
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Barthes, Roland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in terms of its own organizing principles or internal structures. He was strongly influenced by the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, and his ideas, as expressed in works such as S/Z (1970, tr. 1974) and Empire of Signs (1970, tr. 1982...


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