ANT206H5 Chapter Notes -Ferdinand De Saussure, Object Language, Term Symbol
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De saussure, ferdinand (1966) nature of the linguistic sign p. 21-31. Linguistics of language and linguistics of speaking: the study of speech is then twofold, regardless of the viewpoint that we adopt, the linguistic phenomenon always has two related sides, each deriving its values from the other. Place of language in the facts of speech. The same signs united with same concepts: execution is always individual, and the individuals is always its master speaking (parole) It can be localized in the limited segment of the speaking-circuit where an auditory image becomes associated with a concept. It is the social side of speech: language, unlike speaking, is something that we can study separately, whereas speech is heterogeneous, language, as defined, is homogeneous. It is a system of signs in which the only essential thing is the union of meanings and sound-images, and in both parts of the sign are psychological: language is concrete, no less so than speaking.
