Author: Ferdinand de Saussure

Quotes

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

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

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

- Ferdinand de Saussure

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