The Editors' Saussure
The Editors' Saussure
This chapter examines the interpretation of Ferdinand de Saussure's ideas by the editors of the Course in General Linguistics, explaining that it was Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye themselves who were the first to raise doubts about their own interpretation of Saussure's linguistic theorising. As colleagues and close friends of Saussure, Bally and Sechehaye were in the best possible position to understand his views on language. However, they were not able to attend the courses of general linguistics given by Saussure and were also confused by what they discovered from the notes of students who attended his lectures. Two gaps in their interpretation that particularly concerned Bally and Sechehaye were the absence of any detailed treatment of semantics and the absence of a linguistique de la parole.
Keywords: Ferdinand de Saussure, interpretation, General Linguistics, Charles Bally, Albert Sechehaye, linguistic theorising, semantics, la parole
Edinburgh Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
