In Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics, I learned that linguistics are somewhat closely related to other sciences in which they borrow and apply data. For example, in ethnography, meaning the recording of human cultures and in prehistory, it is used differently from each other. In prehistory, language is used to document and in anthropology, language is just a social factor. I also learned that the in the scope of linguistics, it can be used to describe and trace the history of the languages. It is used to trace back to the history of languages to see where the language originated from and how it is used as the times evolved.
Some might ask what semiology is and the definition of semiology is, a science that studies the life of signs within society that is conceivable to be a part of social psychology and general psychology. The way that semiology distinguishes from linguistics is that linguistics is a part of only a general science of semiology. Language can be studied in connection with how people have a connection with something and how they interpret things. The concept is that in your mind, psychology and it turns into a process that comes out physiologically, which happens between two people who are conversing back and forth.
Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics was somewhat difficult to understand due to the description of how linguistic signs unites a concept and a sound-image rather not a thing and a name. Whenever we talk to ourselves or mentally recite a verse, it is clear that the psychological character of sound-images appear. We also tend to disregard what other people imagine when it comes to the associations that we grew up with when it comes to a language. Therefore, it is an interesting reading when it comes to the concept of learning how we take in and communicate in our minds instinctively and the science behind it.
