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Saussure's Third Course of Lectures on General Linguistics (1908-09)

Saussure's Third Course of Lectures on General Linguistics (1908-09)

Ferdinand de Saussure
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The notes taken by Saussure's student Emile Constantin were not available to the editors of the published Cours de Linguistique Generale , and came to light only after World War II. They have never been published in their entirety. full record, is generally considered to represent a more advanced version of Saussure's teaching than the earlier two. It is clear that Constantin's notebooks offer a text which differs in a number of significant respects from the Cours published by Saussure's original editors, and bring forward ideas which do not emerge in the 1916 publication. They constitute unique evidence concerning the final stages of Saussure's thinking about language. English translation of the text. There has been no attempt made by Komatsu and Harris to turn the English into readable prose. Constantin's notes, even as revised by their author, retain the infelicities, repetitions, abruptness - occasionally incoherences - that betray the circumstances of their origin. scholars and libraries specializing in the subject. It should be of interest to scholars, historians and linguists interested in the history of modern linguistics.
Language
English
Pages
320
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Pergamon
Release
January 01, 1993
ISBN
0080419224
ISBN 13
9780080419220

Saussure's Third Course of Lectures on General Linguistics (1908-09)

Ferdinand de Saussure
4/5 ( ratings)
The notes taken by Saussure's student Emile Constantin were not available to the editors of the published Cours de Linguistique Generale , and came to light only after World War II. They have never been published in their entirety. full record, is generally considered to represent a more advanced version of Saussure's teaching than the earlier two. It is clear that Constantin's notebooks offer a text which differs in a number of significant respects from the Cours published by Saussure's original editors, and bring forward ideas which do not emerge in the 1916 publication. They constitute unique evidence concerning the final stages of Saussure's thinking about language. English translation of the text. There has been no attempt made by Komatsu and Harris to turn the English into readable prose. Constantin's notes, even as revised by their author, retain the infelicities, repetitions, abruptness - occasionally incoherences - that betray the circumstances of their origin. scholars and libraries specializing in the subject. It should be of interest to scholars, historians and linguists interested in the history of modern linguistics.
Language
English
Pages
320
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Pergamon
Release
January 01, 1993
ISBN
0080419224
ISBN 13
9780080419220

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