Ferdinand De Saussure: Summarized Classics: SUMMARIZED CLASSICS

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

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Among them, the reader will find an analysis of the following: General Linguistics Course (1916). The reader is also offered a comparison between the author and Peirce, as well as an analysis of the basic elements in Saussure's theory and a useful glossary.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Sep 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201753726

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Ferdinand De Saussure: Summarized Classics

SUMMARIZED CLASSICS

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Published by BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU, 2021.

FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE: SUMMARIZED CLASSICS

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ISBN: 9789871719181

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To my children Elías, Selva, Greta, Ciro and Yaco.

To my life's daughter Emma.

To my wife Cecilia.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Ferdinand De Saussure: Summarized Classics

WHO IS SAUSSURE

GENERAL LINGUISTICS COURSE | PART ONE | GENERAL PRINCIPLES | CHAPTER 1 | Sign, meaning, signifier

2. First principle: the arbitrariness of the sign

Second principle: linear character of the signifier.

Chapter 2  Immutability and mutability of the sign | Immutability

Mutability

CHAPTER 3 | Internal duality of all sciences that operate with values.

2. The internal duality and the history of linguistics.

PART TWO | SYNCHRONIC LINGUISTICS | CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 4 | 1. Language as organized thought in the phonic material

2. The linguistic value considered in its conceptual aspect

3. The linguistic value considered in its material aspect

4. The sign considered in its totality

Chapter 5 | Definitions

Syntagmatic relations

3. Associative relationships

CHAPTER 6  LANGUAGE MECHANISM | 1. Syntagmatic solidarities

2. Simultaneous operation of the two forms of groupings

3. Absolute arbitrariness and relative arbitrariness

SAUSSURE AND PEIRCE

BASIC ELEMENTS IN SAUSSURE'S THEORY | Linguistics

The language

Language characteristics

LANGUAGE: CHARACTERISTICS

The linguistic sign

Characteristics of the | linguistic sign | 1 - ARBITRARIETY: there is no cause that explains why a certain meaning corresponds to a certain signifier; there is no motivation for the correspondence of one with another; therefore, Saussure states that the linguistic sign is arbitrary, unmotivated.

THE LINGUISTIC VALUE

SYNTAGMATIC AND ASSOCIATIVE RELATIONSHIPS

GLOSSARY

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WHO IS SAUSSURE

GENERAL LINGUISTICS COURSE

PART ONE

GENERAL PRINCIPLES

CHAPTER 1  NATURE OF THE LINGUISTIC SIGN

CHAPTER 2 IMMUTABILITY AND MUTABILITY OF THE SIGN

CHAPTER 3  STATIC LINGUISTICS AND EVOLUTIONARY LINGUISTICS

PART TWO

SYNCHRONIC LINGUISTICS

CHAPTER 1  GENERAL

CHAPTER 4  THE LINGUISTIC VALUE

CHAPTER 5  SYNTAGMATIC RELATIONS AND ASSOCIATIVE RELATIONS

CHAPTER 6  LANGUAGE MECHANISM

SAUSSURE AND PEIRCE

BASIC ELEMENTS IN SAUSSURE'S THEORY

GLOSSARY

WHO IS SAUSSURE

Saussure, Ferdinand de (1857-1913): Swiss linguist, revolutionized the study of language by proposing a new conception of the sign , composed of an acoustic image or material aspect -the signifier- and a mental concept -the signified- , arbitrarily linked. S, from what he defined as semiology , privileged the study of language over the other elements of language . S conceived language as a system of signs of an eminently social nature. This system, which exists virtually in the brain of each individual , is not complete in any of them but in the totality of the group (a central idea in the development of structuralism ). Thus, language is the sum of the verbal images stored in all individuals . S opposed a diachronic linguistic analysis, leaning towards a synchronic analysis of language, independent of particular historical uses ( speech ). S had a decisive influence on authors such as C. Lévi-Strauss and M. Foucault . His work is known as Curso de lingüística general ( 1916), published by his students on the basis of notes taken between 1906 and 1911. Subsequently, other unpublished manuscripts by S became known, in which he proposed the theory that Latin poets deliberately concealed anagrams of proper names in their poetic compositions. Somewhat at odds with the thesis of the Course , the attention that the S of anagrams has received has been disparate and highly controversial.

GENERAL LINGUISTICS COURSE

PART ONE

GENERAL PRINCIPLES

CHAPTER 1 

Sign, meaning, signifier

There are those who consider that language, reduced to its essential principle, is a nomenclature, that is, a list of terms corresponding to a list of things. This is open to criticism because it supposes completely ready-made ideas, pre-existent to the words, joined to the name in a very simple operation.

But this simplistic vision brings us closer to the truth, showing that LINGUISTIC UNITY IS OF DOUBLE NATURE, FROM THE UNION OF TWO TERMS, BOTH OF PSYCHIC   NATURE.

WHAT THE LINGUISTIC SIGN UNITES IS NOT A THING AND A NAME, BUT A CONCEPT (WHICH WOULD BE THE IDEA) AND AN ACOUSTIC IMAGE, WHICH IS NOT THE MATERIAL SOUND BUT ITS PSYCHIC TRACE (THE REPRESENTATION, THE MEMORY OF THE SOUND).

THE LINGUISTIC SIGN IS, therefore, A TWO-SIDED PSYCHIC ENTITY: THE COMBINATION OF THE CONCEPT AND THE ACOUSTIC IMAGE.

Both elements are intimately united and mutually claim each other as two sides of the same coin. Saussure retains the word sign to denote the whole, and replaces concept and acoustic image by signified and signifier, respectively. This has the advantage of pointing out the opposition that separates them. The linguistic sign, thus defined, possesses two fundamental characters, which we will see below.

2. First principle: the arbitrariness of the sign

THE LINK BETWEEN THE SIGNIFIER AND THE SIGNIFIED IS ARBITRARY, BECAUSE THEIR RELATIONSHIP IS NOT NATURAL, BUT IS BASED ON A COLLECTIVE, THAT IS, CONVENTIONAL, HABITUS.

THE SIGN, BEING THE UNION OF SIGNIFIER AND SIGNIFIED, IS ARBITRARY. This does