Semiotics General concepts Sign (relation relational complex) Code Confabulation Connotation / Denotation Encoding / Decoding Lexical Modality Representation Salience Semiosis Semiosphere Semiotic elements and sign classes Umwelt Value Fields Biosemiotics Cognitive semiotics Computational semiotics Literary semiotics Semiotics of culture Methods Commutation test Paradigmatic analysis Syntagmatic analysis Semioticians Mikhail... Read full biography of Ferdinand de Saussure →
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 evident that this... →
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a... →
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as... →
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed... →
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other... →
It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology... →
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical... →
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from... →
Semiotics General concepts Sign (relation relational complex) Code Confabulation Connotation / Denotation Encoding / Decoding Lexical Modality Representation Salience Semiosis Semiosphere Semiotic elements and sign classes Umwelt Value Fields Biosemiotics Cognitive semiotics Computational semiotics Literary semiotics Semiotics of culture Methods Commutation test Paradigmatic analysis Syntagmatic analysis Semioticians Mikhail...