"Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely……" — Ferdinand de Saussure
"Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar."
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Ferdinand de Saussure
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30 Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure has 30 quotes on this site.
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Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not…
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Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter,…
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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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In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study…
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Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
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Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law
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Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social;…
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.
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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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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their…
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In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another,…
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Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
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If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service…
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How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.
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If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm…
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Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is…
— Unknown Author
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is…
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The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go…
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— Mortimer Adler
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