Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

Individual

Language

Organs

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas…

Differences

Ideas

Sound

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology – that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

Language

Psychology

Social

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Goes On

Ideas

Language

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

Grammar

Language

Study

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

Cold Hearted

Paradox

Serious

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

Connections

Different

Games

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

Different

Issues

Movement

In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.

Language

Study

Would Be

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.

Independent

Psychology

Rely Upon

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Arbitrary

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Community

Connections

Conservative

Differences

Different

Evoke

Expression

Firsts

Games

Goes On

Grammar

Greek

Groups

Historical

Ideas

Independent

Individual

Initiative

Institutions

Interest

Issues

Language

Law

Mass

Memories

Might

Movement

Nebula

Obscure

Organs

Our Thoughts

Paradox

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Principles

Psychology

Range

Reason Why

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Social

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Speech

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Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas…

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology – that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.

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