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STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS

Structural linguistics, founded by Ferdinand de Saussure, is a field that focuses on understanding language as a static system of interconnected units. Saussure's influential work, "

STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS

Structural Linguistics

main ideas

Syntagm
The paradigmatic relationships are established between alternating units, means, between the signs that could appear in the same place of a statement.

In order to alternate two or more signs, they must belong to the same category.

Paradigm
the syntagmatic relations are given in the speech, the words are ordered in a linear way since there is no possibility of pronouncing two elements at the same time.
Diachrony
A complete language system that is studied in a historical and evolutionary perspective.

Historical Linguistics

Synchrony
A complete language system that is studied in a point of time. Often in a current perspective.
Language
Syntax and Phonology
It's a system of signs shared by the community.
Speech
It's a person using the language as an individual.
It's what the individual speaks.
sign
It needs a speech community to be recognized.
Signifier

Sound of the letters or word which we are talking about

Signified

Concept of the thing.

Language is a static system of interconnected units.

Language is structural

His most influential work is "Course in General Linguistics", which was published in 1916

Ferdinand de Saussure

His ideas served for the beginning and development of Modern Linguistics.
His most influential work is "Course in General Linguistics", which was published in 1916.
Father of the Structural Linguistics.
He was born in Switzerland in 1857 and he died in 1913.

It's the idea of language is a system of constrast and equivalents.