Course in General Linguistics (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ferdinand de Saussure
- First Published: 1916
- Type of Work: Linguistics
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Linguistics
- Subjects: Language or languages, Education or educators, Speech, Semantics, Semiotics
Form and Content
Ferdinand de Saussure has been widely acclaimed as the father of modern linguistics. That may seem surprising to those marginally aware that his publications total only six hundred pages—and that the work responsible for his renown was not published by him but by his students. Following his death in 1913, several of his students (led by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye) undertook to publish his insightful contributions to the field of linguistics. To their surprise, they found that the master had destroyed the drafts of lecture notes he had compiled for the...
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