num_pages: 236
description: The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such diverse areas as art, architecture, folklore, literary criticism, and philosophy.
language: English
title: Course in General Linguistics
titlecomplete: Course in General Linguistics (Open Court Classics)
genres: Linguistics, Language, France, Semiotics, Philosophy, Science, Nonfiction, Theory, Academic, Anthropology
ratings_count: 3279
series: Seri ILDEP
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Scott Moncrieff Prize
category: Roy Harris
publisher: Open Court