The Sign That Puts an End to the World: General Linguistics and the Suspension of the Referent
Abstract
Ferdinand de Saussure's general linguistics challenges and criticizes the correlation between words and things, and tends to suspend their supposed natural relationships. It claims to study language in an intrinsic way and redefines it to do so in a new way. The referent is largely put in brackets, relegated to a relatively marginal position, under the effect of a theory of the sign and its circuit.
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2019-07-01
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