Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.
—Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist, Course in General Linguistics, 1915
Posted on September 1, 2000 at 6:01 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
—Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist, Course in General Linguistics, 1915
Posted on June 26, 2003 at 10:24 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Of all social institutions, language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.
—Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist, Course in General Linguistics, 1915
Posted on October 30, 2001 at 10:32 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.
—Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist, Course in General Linguistics, 1915
Posted on October 31, 2001 at 2:59 PM
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