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Le sentiment linguistique chez Saussure

Le sentiment linguistique chez Saussure

Edited by Gilles Siouffi

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Saussure's linguistic feeling

"Everything that is in the feeling of the speakers is a real phenomenon," wrote Saussure in the 1880s for a possible course in morphology. But the term sentiment is not one of those that, such as sign, system, synchrony or diachrony, is associated with the canon of Saussure's concepts. The project of this book is to show on the contrary, that the linguistic feeling occupies an essential place in the thought of the Geneva linguist, and that it is perhaps the main instance that allows him to define what he calls « langue ». The contributions in this book investigate what can be called Saussure's linguistic feel, exploring the inspirations that Saussure may have taken from his predecessors, study the various inflections that the motif takes on in his texts, particularly from manuscript sources, and explore the issues of the notion today. Taking its place in the field of the history of linguistic ideas, it is also likely to open up new avenues of research on the apprehension of linguistic facts by the speaker.