Devices Quote by Ferdinand de Saussure

“Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.”

Ferdinand de Saussure

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Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

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In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for…

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The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct consequence of…

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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other,…

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It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is…

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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

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Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is…

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The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages.…

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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any…

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Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

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Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one…

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