Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
- Ferdinand de Saussure
More Quotes By Ferdinand de Saussure
- Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology – that is to say, will be...
- I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted....
- The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.
- In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a...
- It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain....
- It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole...
- The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent...
- Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general...
- Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.
- A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas…
- Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law
- The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term....
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