Course in General Linguistics - Ferdinand la Saussure

Course in General Linguistics

By Ferdinand la Saussure

  • Release Date: 1986-06-01
  • Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines

Description

The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such diverse areas as art, architecture, folklore, literary criticism, and philosophy.

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