Monday, November 8, 2010

Saussure on Difference, Phenomena and Language

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"It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time."

-Ferdinand de Saussure

Paul Fry, a Yale Professor, examines semiotics and structuralism with respect to the thought of Ferdinand de Saussure. 

Primary Source: Writings in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure

 

Secondary Source: Cambridge Companion to Saussure by Carol Sanders

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