Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Saussure's work: its context and significance
- 2 The distinction between langue and parole
- 3 Language as a system of signs, I: Signs, arbitrariness, linearity, and change
- 4 Language as a system of signs, II: Diachronic and synchronic linguistics
- 5 Language as a system of signs, III: Identities, system, and relations
- 6 Language as a system of signs, IV: Values, differences, and reality
- 7 Successes and failures
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Saussure's work: its context and significance
- 2 The distinction between langue and parole
- 3 Language as a system of signs, I: Signs, arbitrariness, linearity, and change
- 4 Language as a system of signs, II: Diachronic and synchronic linguistics
- 5 Language as a system of signs, III: Identities, system, and relations
- 6 Language as a system of signs, IV: Values, differences, and reality
- 7 Successes and failures
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- SaussureSigns, System and Arbitrariness, pp. 175 - 177Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991