Course in General Linguistics
, by la Saussure, Ferdinand- ISBN: 9780812690231 | 0812690230
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/30/1998
The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such diverse areas as art, architecture, folklore, literary criticism, and philosophy.