Ebook: Course in General Linguistics

This new edition of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (1916) is the first critical edition of Saussure to appear in English. It also restores Wade Baskin's delightful original English translation (1959), which has long been unavailable. The founder of modern linguistics, Saussure inaugurated semiology, structuralism, and deconstruction and made possible the work of Jacques Lacan, French feminism, cultural studies, New Historicism, and postcolonialism. Based on the lectures that Saussure gave at the end of his life at the University of Geneva, the text of th.;A glance at the history of linguistics -- Subject matter and scope of linguistics; its relations with other sciences -- The object of linguistics -- Linguistics of language and linguistics of speaking -- Internal and external elements of language -- Graphic representation of language -- Phonology.