Saussure and American linguistics

Falk, Julia S.

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“…It is outside the scope of this article to sketch the complex diffusion of Saussurean ideas throughout the various academic disciplines, but it is safe to say his linguistics was largely ignored by his home field in both the United States and France (Dosse, 1997: 45; Falk, 2004: 122–123). 18 By the time linguists and historians of linguistics began a “return to Saussure” in the 1960s and 1970s, it was unavoidably “mediated by ‘general structuralism’” (Puech, 2004: 127).…”

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“…18 By the time linguists and historians of linguistics began a “return to Saussure” in the 1960s and 1970s, it was unavoidably “mediated by ‘general structuralism’” (Puech, 2004: 127). Furthermore, as Saussure diffused first to the east (Russia and Prague), then north (Copenhagen), then west (New York) – primarily through the Russian linguist Roman Jakobson (Falk, 2004: 114; Johnson, 2003: 172) – before finally reemerging in France, the components of the Saussurean model were “dismembered” in piecemeal attempts to overcome epistemological and rhetorical obstacles (Angenot, 1984). This dismembering led to a few key misunderstandings.…”

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“… 21. This distinction likely entered American academia through Leonard Bloomfield who reviewed the second edition of the Cours in the mid-1920s and found little else in it that Whitney had not already suggested (Falk, 2004: 108–111). In passing, Saussure also referred to idiosynchronic and panchronic analysis, but considered them ultimately futile. …”

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Becoming a dominant misinterpreted source: The case of Ferdinand de Saussure in cultural sociology

Stoltz

2019

Journal of Classical Sociology

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Cultural analysts in sociology typically cite the work of Ferdinand de Saussure to motivate a narrow theory of meaning. In so doing, sociologists incorrectly attribute to Saussure (1) the postulate that meaning is arbitrary; (2) the idea that signs gain meaning only through relations of opposition to other signs; (3) the view that there is an isomorphic correspondence between linguistic signs and all cultural units of analysis, ergo culture is fundamentally arbitrary; and finally (4) the idea that he offers a Durkheimian theory of culture (i.e. Saussure was a follower of Durkheim). Saussure’s project, rather, was specific to linguistics, and mainly one of theoretical and methodological clarification regarding phonology. Saussure never intended his analytical model of phonology to apply to the real operation of meaning in general, as done by contemporary interpreters and, furthermore, never argued that meaning is arbitrary.

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Becoming a dominant misinterpreted source: The case of Ferdinand de Saussure in cultural sociology

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2019

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“…Como assinala Falk (2004), Saussure explicitamente menciona essa distorção teórica na concepção de linguagem do americano, o que, a rigor, o retira de sua posição de "exce-…”

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“A linguagem é uma instituição sem análogo”

Faria

2020

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RESUMO: Gambarara (2007) analisa o manuscrito “N.10 – Notes pour un article sur Whitney”, afirma tratar-se de um documento capital para compreender Saussure e declara ter havido, na leitura e interpretação desse manuscrito, uma homogeneização e simplificação do conteúdo das diferentes anotações de Saussure que conduz a uma supervalorização de “l’expression du rapport que Saussure entretenait avec Whitney” (p.239). Acrescenta ainda que, apesar do fato de Saussure ter citado Whitney com interesse e respeito, o genebrino mantém “un certain détachement, si on les compare aux citations de Baudouin ou de Kruszewski” (p.271). Neste trabalho, propomo-nos a examinar o referido afastamento de Saussure, destacando sua afirmação sobre ser a linguagem uma instituição sem análogo (ELG, p. 182). Assumimos ser o conceito de social subentendido na citação recolocado de forma radical na noção saussuriana de sistema, permitindo a Saussure perseguir um tratamento formal da língua. Nossa discussão baseia-se numa pesquisa de natureza bibliográfica que tem como corpus de análise A vida da linguagem de Whitney, os manuscritos saussurianos Notas para um artigo sobre Whitney e Essência dupla da linguagem e o Curso de linguística geral.

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Consecutive Interpreting: From Language to Communication

Kozin

2017

Consecutive Interpreting

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Saussure and American linguistics

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Becoming a dominant misinterpreted source: The case of Ferdinand de Saussure in cultural sociology

Becoming a dominant misinterpreted source: The case of Ferdinand de Saussure in cultural sociology

“A linguagem é uma instituição sem análogo”

Consecutive Interpreting: From Language to Communication

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