Elements of Semiology
Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub
Published: May 1977
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780809013838
Subjects: Philosophy; Fiction
First sentence: In Saussure: The (dichotomic) concept of language/speech is central in Saussure and was certainly a great novelty in relation to earlier linguistics which sought to find the causes of historical changes in the evolution of pronunciation, spontaneous associations and the working of analogy, and was therefore a linguistics of the individual act.