Course in General Linguistics (World Philosophers and Their Works)
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- Author: Ferdinand de Saussure
- First Published: 1916
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Linguistics
- Subjects: Language or languages, Education or educators, Speech, Semantics, Semiotics
Context
When Ferdinand de Saussure delivered a series of lectures on linguistics in Geneva in 1907-1911, he prompted an entirely new direction in philosophy, one that came to be known as the philosophy of language. Before Saussure’s time, philosophers saw their task as trying to solve classical philosophic problems by carefully considering how certain words were used. For example, is it more exact to say “entrance” and “exit” or to say “entrance” and “not an entrance”? The philosophy of language does not concern itself with these issues, but rather aims to...
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