Reference:
Review Excerpts 'The basic contention of the present paper is that the fundamental error in contemporary linguistics is still the fundamental error of
Saussure's original thesis. It involves a crude process of abstraction by which certain phenomena are segregated from the continuum of
human communication, and these segregated phenomena are then, rather capriciously, set up for academic purposes as constituting the
linguistic part of communication' (22).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | communication | contention | linguistics |
thesis |
'Modern linguistics proceeded to demonstrate its indebtedness to Saussure by remaining profoundly segregationalist both in its
methodology and in its attitude to neighboring disciplines' (22).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | linguistics | 'For purposes of an integrational analysis, however, the concept of meaning may be dispensed with and replaced by that of
communicational function. The crucial difference is that the communicational function of a sign is always contextually determined and derives
from the network of integrational relations which obtain in a particular situation' (49).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | analysis | concept | difference |
function |
meaning |
network |
sign |
situation |
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