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Publication
Paris: Payot & Rivages, 1995
Description
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
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This is a linguistics classic and a must-read for anyone wanting to delve into the history of linguistics. Just to be sure, however, this is a collection of notes from his course painstakingly collected into this volume by his students. The notes are based on a series of lectures, so it doesn't
If you're looking for a more specific understanding of general linguistics as the field stands today, I recommend picking up a contemporary introductory text and reading this after you've got a basic grounding in linguistics terms and concepts.
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really read so much like a textbook. If you're looking for a more specific understanding of general linguistics as the field stands today, I recommend picking up a contemporary introductory text and reading this after you've got a basic grounding in linguistics terms and concepts.
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Awards
Scott Moncrieff Prize for French Translation (Winner — 1984)
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Original publication date
1916 [original French]
1945 [Argentina]
1986 [English: Roy Harris]
Physical description
520 p.; 21 cm
ISBN
2228889423 / 9782228889421
Local notes
XVIII+520 p. Data de colofó: novembre 1997