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• Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule…
• Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by…
• Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.
• In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language…
• Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
• Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law
• Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will…
• A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
• The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.
• Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
• Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
• Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these…

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