ABSTRACT:
Includes sections on linguistics before Saussure, definition of the linguistic sign, how Saussure broke with earlier approaches to analyzing language, synchronic and diachronic analysis, context and contrast, language as a system of values, the link between sound and thought, meaning vs. linguistic value, linguistic forms, differences in the language system, opposition among linguistic signs, linear and non-linear relations, diachronic linguistics, phonetic changes, analogy, agglutination, European structuralism, Gustave Guillaume, Pierre Guiraud, Leonard Bloomfield, Noam Chomsky, Claude Levi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, and Saussurean anagrams.
