Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure (26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist and semiotician whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments both in linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. He is considered along with Charles Sanders Peirce the father of semiotics. Saussure's most influential work, Course in General Linguistics (Cours de linguistique générale), was published posthumously in 1916 by former students Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye on the basis of notes taken from Saussure's lectures in Geneva. The Course became one of the seminal linguistics works of the 20th century, not primarily for the content, but rather for the innovative approach that Saussure applied in discussing linguistic phenomena.
Literature
- Books by Saussure
- Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-européennes (Dissertation on the Primitive Vowel System in Indo-European Languages), 1878
- Cours de linguistique générale (Course in General Linguistics), Payot, 1916
- Course in General Linguistics, Edited by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, in collaboration with Albert Reidlinger, Translated from the French by Wade Baskin, The Philosophical Library, INC., 1959 (English transl.)
- Predavanja iz splošnega jezikoslovja, ISH, Ljubljana, 1997 (Slovenian transl.)
- Charles Bally, Léopold Gautier (ed.), Recueil des publications scientifiques de Ferdinand de Saussure, Payot, 1922
- Cours de linguistique générale, édition critique par Tullio de Mauro (1967), Payot, 1972-
- Écrits de linguistique générale, établis et édités par Simon Bouquet et Rudolf Engler, avec la collaboration d'Antoinette Weil, Éditions Gallimard, 2002
- Scrieri de lingvistică generală, Polirom Publishing House, Iasi, 2003 (Romanian transl.)
- Books about Saussure
- Jean Starobinski, Les mots sous les mots: Les anagrammes de Ferdinand de Saussure, Gallimard, Paris, 1971
- Ana María Nethol (ed.), Ferdinand de Saussure. Fuentes manuscritas y estudios críticos, XXI Editores SA, 1971, 1985
- Roy Harris, Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein. How to play games with words, Routledge, 1988
- Carol Sanders (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Saussure, Oxford, 2004
Links
- Saussure on Wikipedia
- les Fond Saussure (in French)
