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Entre expression et expressivité :  l'école linguistique de Genève de 1900 à 1940

Entre expression et expressivité : l'école linguistique de Genève de 1900 à 1940

Charles Bally, Albert Sechehaye, Henri Frei


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The Linguistic School of Geneva from 1900 to 1940 : Between expression and expressivity

Historiographically complex, the problem of identity surrounding the Geneva School of general linguistics is still in debate at the time of the discovery and publication of unknown manuscripts of Ferdinand de Saussure. Is institutional affiliation to the department of General Linguistics at the University of Geneva sufficient to ensure an operational conceptual continuity within this school? Based on the study of all the works published between 1900 and 1940 by three representatives of the School of Geneva, Charles Bally, Albert Sechehaye and Henri Frei, this study shows how three different explanatory systems take shape, thus establishing a common research field around the categories of expression and expressivity. At the time of the emergence of Structural linguistics, the scientific undertakings of the linguists belonging to the Geneva School reinstill the Saussurean themes in the development of three areas of common representation, foreign to the structuralist line of research: the status of psychology, the linguistic study of emotions and the place of the speaking subject. The homogeneity effect that emerges from these conceptual networks goes beyond its being institutional, because it offers a new perspective on the Saussurean legacy, as reflected in the theories developed by developed by his successors of the Geneva School.

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