ferdinand de saussure: the father of linguistics
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Ferdiand de
Saussure
Father of Linguistics
Silvia Lee
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Born:Geneva, Switzerland 1857
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Father:Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure
MineralogistEntomologistTaxonomist
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University of Geneva1875
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Graduate Work:University of Leipzig 1876
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l’Ecole pratique des hautes étudesTaught (11 years):• Sanskrit• Gothic• Old High German
Knight of the Legion
of Honor
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University of Geneva 1891
Professor• Sanskrit• Indo-Eurpoean
langauges• Course of
General Linguistics (1907-1911)
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Doctorate in 1880:
Dissertation on the Primitive Vowel System
in Indo-European
Languages
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What is language?
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Sign
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Sign = abritary
Symbol = motivation
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Sign
SignifiedSignifier
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Value of the Sign
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Emile Durkheim
•Father of sociology
•Social integration
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Langue Parole
(system) (put into practice)
Language in social, cultural context
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gay
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Signs•Polysemous
•Unstable
•Endlessly shifting
•Create new meanings, new social contexts
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The Arbitrary Nature of the Sign
system of relations
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Objection 1: Onomoatopeoia
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Objection 2: Interjections
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Synchrony & Diachrony
complete systemat a given time
historical development
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Synchrony:present and future
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Paradigm (pattern)&
Syntagm (syntax)
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Criticisms• Langue: complete system?
• Distinction: syntagm & paradigm
• Finite-state grammar
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Claude Levi-Strauss
•Structuralism
•Family relations
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Linguistics
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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
•Linguistic relativity
•Language determines thought