Course In General Linguistics - Softcover

Ferdinand De Saussure

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070165246 ISBN 13: 9780070165243

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1965

Synopsis

Course notes recorded by students at the University of Geneva and the Swiss professor's personal notes form the bases for examination of de Saussure's pioneering work on the functional and structural aspects of human speech

About this title

About the Author:

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913) received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig in 1880 and lectured on ancient and modern languages in Paris until 1891. He then taught Sanskrit and Indo-European languages at the University of Geneva until the end of his life. Among his published works is Memoir on the Primitive System of Vowels in Indo-European Languages, published in 1878 when Saussure was twenty-one.Wade Baskin (1924–1974) was a professor of languages at Southeastern Oklahoma State University and translated many works from French, including books by Jean-Paul Sartre.Perry Meisel is professor of English at New York University. His books include The Myth of the Modern, The Literary Freud, and The Myth of Popular Culture.Haun Saussy is university professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. His books include The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic and Great Walls of Discourse.

Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1965
• ISBN 10: 0070165246
• ISBN 13: 9780070165243
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Charles Bally, Albert Sechehaye, Albert Riedlinger