Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Linguistic System, Integrability Conditions For Differential Systems, Philology
6 Feb 2018
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Our reading: published in 1916, based on lecture material from 1906-1911. Basic unit of language (basic building block" of any linguistic system) Need to have both the signifier and the signifier: signifier/signal. A form (any form) linked to an idea (signified: sound pattern, signified/signification. An idea/concept linked to a signifier: concept. Nunavut again; different words for different ages of sheep in english, but in french everything is mutton") Saussure wanted to think about language as a system, not about the particular words a system of difference in which all the parts are interlocking and in which ideas and utterances are produced by the system itself. Language: the rules and elements that make up the system of a language. Parole: what users do with that system: s. ppl should study language, not parole. The dominant was philology, the study of the history of words, it was a historical pursuit.
