The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
More Quotes from Ferdinand de Saussure:
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.Ferdinand de Saussure
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 is applicable in the case of languages.
Ferdinand de Saussure
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
Ferdinand de Saussure
In attempting to trace the history of a language, one will very soon find oneself obliged to trace the history of a language family.
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 science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: embarking, linguisticsYe are brothers, ye are men, and we conquer but to save.
Thomas Campbell
I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.
Sandra Bullock
I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
Charles Barkley