Saussure’s dichotomies and the shapes of structuralist semiotics

The Cours de linguistique générale (1916), which became the master text for structuralist linguistics and semiotics, is characterized by a series of dichotomies. Some of them, e.g. langue and parole, signified and signifier, arbitrary and motivated, are very well known, others less so. This paper l...

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Main Author: John E. Joseph
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tartu Press 2022-06-01
Series:Sign Systems Studies
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Online Access:https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/sss/article/view/19008