Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-dk4vv Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T05:58:32.719Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

‘Langue’ and ‘parole’: once again

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2017

L. G. Kelly
L. G. Kelly*
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

It is, perhaps, not unjust to divide linguists between those who accept the basic Saussurean dichotomy between langue and parole, and those who reject it. Saussure advanced this theory at a time when linguistics was still essentially diachronic, and the link between a language and its user was seen in literary rather than in social terms. But though his book was a much needed corrective to the mechanistic cast of contemporary Darwinian linguistics, developments in language analysis outgrew his statement of the theory as it appears in the Cours de linguistique générale.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , Spring 1970 , pp. 129 - 142
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1970

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Artymovyč, A., “On the Potentiality of language,” A Prague School Reader in 1935 Linguistics, ed. Vachek, J.. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 75–80.Google Scholar
Chomsky, N., “Current Issues in Linguistic Theory,” The Structure of Language; 1964 Readings in the Philosophy of Language, ed. Fodor, J. A. & Katz, J. J.. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1964, 50–118.Google Scholar
Ferguson, C., “Diglossia,” Word 15, 325–340. 1959 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ferguson, C., 1964 “Diglossia,” Language in Culture and Society: A reader in linguistics and anthropology, ed. Hymes, Dell. New York: Harper & Row, 429–39.Google Scholar
Guillaume, G., Langage et science du langage, ed. Valin, R.. Québec: Presses de 1966 l’univérsité Laval.Google Scholar
Gumperz, J., “How can we describe and measure the behaviour of bilingual 1967 groups?” The Description and Measurement of Bilingualism: An International Seminar, ed. Kelly, L. G.. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969.Google Scholar
Labov, w., The Social Stratification of English in New York City. Washington: 1966 Center for Applied Linguistics.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Labov, w., 1967 Comment on Gumperz, “How can we describe…,” The Description and Measurement of Bilingualism; an International Seminar, 250–55.Google Scholar
Lepage, R. B., Comment on Hasselmo, N., “How can we measure the effects 1967 which one language may have on the other in the speech of a bilingual?” The Description and Measurement of Bilingualism: An International Seminar, pp. 142–47.Google Scholar
Malblanc, A., Stylistique comparée du français et de l’allemand. Paris: Didier. 1944 Google Scholar
Mathesius, v., “On the Potentiality of Language,” A Prague School Reader 1911 in Linguistics, 1–32.Google Scholar
Rogger, K., “Kritischer Versuch über de Saussures Cours général,” ZRPh 61 1935 (1935), 161–217.Google Scholar
Saussure, F. De, Cours de linguistique générale, ed. Bally, C. & Sechehaye, A.. 1915 Paris: Payot.Google Scholar
Siertsema, B., A Study of Glossematics. The Hague: Mouton. 1955 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sinclair, J. M., “Beginning the Study of Lexis,” In Memory of J, Firth, R., 1966 ed. Bazell, C. E. et al. London: Longmans, 410–30.Google Scholar
Sommerfelt, A., “Points de vue diachronique, synchronique et panchronique 1938 en linguistique générale,” Norsk Tidsschrift for Sprogvindeskap, 9, 240–49.Google Scholar
Ullmann, s., “Descriptive and Historical Methods in Semantics,” Language 1966 and Style, ed. Ullmann, S.. Oxford: Blacknell, 50–62.Google Scholar
Vachek, J., The Linguistic School of Prague. Bloomington and London: 1966 Indiana University Press.Google Scholar
Vinay, J-P., and Darbelnet, J., Stylistique comparée de l’anglais et du français. 1958 Paris: Didier.Google Scholar
Weinreich, U., Languages in Contact; findings and problems. New York: 1953 Linguistic Circle of New York.Google Scholar