Our second reading will be an excerpt from Ferdinand de Sausurre’s Course in General Linguistics. We’ll read the second and third chapters from the Introduction, as well as the first and second chapters from Part One.
Here is a PDF: Saussure_GenLing_exc
Here are the questions for this reading:
Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics provides a major contribution to the study of language and introduces a new field referred to as Semiology. What distinguishes semiology from linguistics? How do we use signs in everyday language? How are signs, signifiers, and the signified employed in general communication? How are language, graphic communication and visual arts related to or distinct from one another?
