Summary
Ferdinand de Saussure: A Course in General Linguistics
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This groundbreaking text in 20th century linguistics, first published in 1916, was created from the notes of de Saussure's lecture listeners, and edited and published by his students and colleagues. Significantly different in his approach to language from the linguistics of that time, the author wants to observe "language for itself and by itself", to study those linguistic phenomena that operate always and everywhere, to which all human languages are subject, and tries to extract general laws to which he could reduce all special historical linguistic phenomena, that is, he insists on the connection and mutual conditioning of linguistic elements as parts of a system, on the clear and firm structure and hierarchy of linguistic facts, and more on the relationships between linguistic units, but on them.
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