“ Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 2.1K
“ It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Before Latin, there is a period which Greek and Slavic share in common. So this involves the history of language families, as and when relevant. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Before Latin, there is a period which Greek and Slavic share in common. So this involves the history of language families, as and when relevant. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 2.1K
“ A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 770
“ In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 3K
“ In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 246
“ Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 455
“ The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 3.7K
“ It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Before Latin, there is a period which Greek and Slavic share in common. So this involves the history of language families, as and when relevant. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 3.4K
“ It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 3.6K
“ A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 680
“ The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 253
“ The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 2.6K
“ A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 3.5K
“ A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 277
“ The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 3.9K
“ A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 763
“ Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 2.9K
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4