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Writings in General Linguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure
Edited by Simon Bouquet, Rudolf Engler, Carol Sanders, and Matthew Pires
366 pages
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246x171mm
978-0-19-926144-4
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Hardback
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27 July 2006
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- Generally accepted as the founder of modern linguistics and of structuralism, Saussure can be considered, together with Noam Chomsky, one of the two most influential linguists of the twentieth century. Giulio Lepschy, University College, London
- First publication in English of the manuscript on general linguistics by Ferdinand Saussure which lay undiscovered in a Geneva summerhouse for eighty years and which in the form of his students' lecture notes helped shape the thought of the twentieth century
- Edited, introduced, and translated by the leading Saussure scholars
- Throws new light on Saussure's thought, including his famous oppositions between form and meaning, the sign and what is signified, and language (lange) and its performance (parole)
Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale was posthumously composed by his students from the notes they had made at his lectures. The book became one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, giving direction to modern linguistics and inspiration to literary and cultural theory. Before he died Saussure told friends he was writing up the lectures himself but no evidence of this was found. Eighty years later in 1996 a manuscript in Saussure's hand was discovered in the orangerie of his family house in Geneva. This
proved to be the missing original of the great work. It is published now in English for the first time in an edition edited by Simon Bouquet and Rudolf Engler, and translated and introduced by Carol Sanders and Matthew Pires, all leading Saussure scholars. The book includes an earlier discovered manuscript on the philosophy of language, Saussure's own notes for lectures, and a comprehensive bibliography of major work on Saussure from 1970 to 2004.
It is remarkable that for eighty years the understanding of Saussure's thought has depended on an incomplete and non-definitive text, the sometimes aphoristic formulations of which gave rise to many creative interpretations and arguments for and against Saussure. Did he, or did he not, see language as a-social and
a-historical? Did he, or did he not, rule out the study of speech within linguistics? Was he a reductionist? These disputes and many others can now be resolved on basis of the work now published. This reveals new depth and subtetly in Saussure's thoughts on the nature and complex workings of language, particularly his famous binary oppositions between form and meaning, the sign and what is signified, and language (langue) and its performance (parole).Readership: Scholars and advanced students of linguistics, anthropology, and literary theory
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Ferdinand de Saussure, Institut Ferdinand de Saussure, Switzerland Edited by Simon Bouquet, Institut Ferdinand de Saussure, Switzerland, Rudolf Engler, retired, Carol Sanders, University of Surrey, and Matthew Pires, University of Franche-Comté and visiting lecturer University of London Institute, ParisContributors:
Carol Sanders
Simon Bouquet and Rudolf Engler
Matthew Pires and Carol Sanders
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"a very good translation... this volume marks a true watershed in the development of Saussurean studies in the English-speaking world." - John E. Joseph, The Modern Language Review "This is basically a translation, into accurate and readable English, of the collection edited by Simon Bouquet and Rudolf Engler, published by Gallimard in 2002...The present edition adds a useful introduction by Carol Sanders and a bibliography, mainly compiled by Sanders and Matthew Pires, of secondary works on Saussure published between 1970 and 2004...The translation, for which Sanders and Pires are again responsible, is very well done." - P. H. Matthews, French Studies Quarterly Review "I consider the present volume a
highly valuable publication not only in the context of Saussurean studies but for all linguists and graduate students interested in the history of linguistics, philosophy of language, and semiotics." - Mareike Buss, The Linguist List
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Carol Sanders: Introduction
Simon Bouquet and Rudolf Engler: Preface
Part I On the Dual Essence of Language
Part II Miscellany and Aphorisms
Part III Other Writings in General Linguistics
Part IV Preparatory Notes for the Course in General Linguistics
Matthew Pires and Carol Sanders: Bibliography of Writings on Saussure
Index
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