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1 online resource (793 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Foreword; PART I. THE WORLD INTO WHICH HE WAS BORN; 1. Rising to prominence; Switzerland and its neighbour, Geneva; The noble Saulxures of Lorraine; In Monsieur Calvin's Geneva; Becoming bourgeois; Horace-Bénédict de Saussure; Reforming the Collège de Genève; The glory of Mont Blanc, the infamy of the Revolution; 2. His grandparents' and parents' generations; The Congress of Vienna; Albertine Necker de Saussure; Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure; Alphonse de Saussure; Fanny Crud; Count Alexandre de Pourtalès; Augusta Saladin de Crans; The Genevese Revolution of 1846-1848 |
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Théodore de SaussureAdèle Pictet; Henri de Saussure; Countess Louise de Pourtalès; 3. The heritage of linguistics and semiology; Continuity and progress; The history of linguistics according to Saussure; The emergence of linguistic thought in Greece; The Christian Middle Ages; Renaissance and Enlightenment; The encounter with Sanskrit and the beginnings of comparativism; The vowels of primitive Indo-European; PART II. EARLY YEARS TO THE MÉMOIRE; 4. 1857-1873; Birth and childhood; Mons-Djémila and Henri Dunant; Hofwyl; The Franco-Prussian War; Institution Martine; Infatuation |
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Collège de Genève5. 1873-1876; First love; Gymnase de Genève; Adolphe Pictet; 'Essay for reducing the words of Greek, Latin & German to a few roots'; Tragedy and triumph; Université de Genève; 6. 1876-1878; Société de linguistique de Paris; To Leipzig; Courses at Leipzig; First publications; Indo-European a; Family matters and military service; Remembering Pictet; 7. The Mémoire on the original vowel system of the Indo-European languages; Getting there first; The Neogrammarian manifesto; Reclaiming simplicity, relocating complexity: a[sub(1)] and the sonant coefficients; Phonemes |
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Disyllabic rootsLaws and dogma; The book's reception; Möller and laryngeals; PART III. DOCTORATE AND PARIS YEARS; 8. 1879-1881; Berlin and Whitney; Retreat to Geneva, return to Leipzig; The Sanskrit genitive absolute; Voyage to Lithuania; To Paris; The École Pratique des Hautes Études; 9. 1881-1884; First courses; Inner speech and linguistic signs; Learning to teach; Dismantling the phoneme; Difference and intentionality; Adjunct Secretary; Weddings; Publications; 10. 1884-1888; 'Theoretical explanations' and 'Generalities about linguistic method and the life of language' |
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Théodore de Saussure's book on the French languageTeaching; Family crisis; Lean years; 11. 1888-1891; Courtship; Friends and rivals; Leave; René de Saussure and difference; Return and adieu to Paris; PART IV. RETURN TO GENEVA; 12. 1891-1894; Inaugural lectures; Double essence; Marriage and family; Coloured hearing; The immensity of the work'; 13. 1894-1899; The International Congress of Orientalists; Pro and contra Whitney; Grief and grievances; Indogermanische Forschungen articles and other writings; The spirit world; Lectures on the syllable; 14. 1899-1903 |
| Summary |
"In a language there are only differences without positive terms. Whether we take the signified or the signifier, the language contains neither ideas nor sounds that pre-exist the linguistic system, but only conceptual differences and phonic differences issuing from this system." (From the posthumous Course in General Linguistics, 1916.). No one becomes as famous as Saussure without both admirers and detractors reducing them to a paragraph's worth of ideas that can be readily quoted, debated, memorized, and examined. One can argue the ideas expressed above - that language is composed |
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Léopold de Saussure's colonial linguistics |
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Print version record |
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Saussure, Ferdinand de, 1857-1913.
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Saussure, Ferdinand de, 1857-1913 fast |
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Linguists -- Switzerland -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
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Linguists
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Languages & Literatures.
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Philology & Linguistics.
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Switzerland
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Biographies
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191636967 |
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0191636967 |
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1280594454 |
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9781280594458 |
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0199695652 |
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9780199695652 |
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