The founder of modern linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure
inaugurated semiology, structuralism, and deconstruction and made
possible the work of Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Michel
Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, thus enabling the development of
French feminism, gender studies, New Historicism, and
postcolonialism. Based on Saussure's lectures, "Course in General
Linguistics" (1916) traces the rise and fall of the historical
linguistics in which Saussure was trained, the synchronic or
structural linguistics with which he replaced it, and the new look
of diachronic linguistics that followed this change. Most
important, Saussure presents the principles of a new linguistic
science that includes the invention of semiology, or the theory of
the "signifier," the "signified," and the "sign" that they combine
to produce.
This is the first critical edition of "Course in General
Linguistics" to appear in English and restores Wade Baskin's
original translation of 1959, in which the terms "signifier" and
"signified" are introduced into English in this precise way. Baskin
renders Saussure clearly and accessibly, allowing readers to
experience his shift of the theory of reference from mimesis to
performance and his expansion of poetics to include all media,
including the life sciences and environmentalism. An introduction
situates Saussure within the history of ideas and describes the
history of scholarship that made "Course in General Linguistics"
legendary. New endnotes enlarge Saussure's contexts to include
literary criticism, cultural studies, and philosophy.
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