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- 1. NATURE OF THE LINGUISTIC SIGN -Ferdinand de Saussure
- 2. The Sign is Arbitrary • The link between signal and signification is arbitrary . • For example : there is no inner connection between the idea sister and the sound s-o-r which serves as signal in French. • Two objections raised are : Onomatopoeic words prove that the choice of the signal is not always arbitrary. But Saussure encounters that they are never organic elements.
- 3. NATURE OF LINGUISTIC SIGN • Sign , Signification and Signal • Two fundamental characteristics of linguistic sign: The Sign is Arbitrary Linear Character of the signal.
- 4. Sign , Signification and Signal • A linguistic unit is dual in nature. • A verbal sign have two sides : the sound image and the concept. • A linguistic sign is a link between a concept and a sound pattern. • Saussure replace concept by signification and sound pattern by signal . • Sign = signification (signified) + signal (signifier)
- 5. Interjections may also be sited to question. There is no fixed link between exclamatory signal and its signification. Example: the English equivalent of French “aie” is “ouch”.
- 6. INTRODUCTION • Saussure is a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study . • Most important feature of his work is theory of sign. • Literature may be understood as a parts of a system of signs. • Saussure study language as a synchronic system rather than a diachronic phenomenon. • Saussure coined the term langue and parole .
- 7. Linear Character of the Signal • The linguistic signal being auditory in nature has a temporal aspects . • This occupies a space and is measured in a line. • The whole mechanism of linguistic structure depends upon it . • Auditory signals have at their command only the linearity of time. • A spatial line of graphic sign is substituted for a succession of sounds in time.
- 8. • The linear nature of the signal is not obvious. • The syllable and its stress constitute only one phonetically act . • There is no duality within this act.
- 9. Bibliography • Ferdinand de Saussure, Cours de Linguistiue generale (Geneva,1916), ed.Charles Bally and Albert Secherhaye in collaboration with Albert Reindlinger; ed. And trans.as course in General Linguistics by Wade Baskin (London : Peter Owen, 1959), p.9
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