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Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its originsEdited by Joseph Davis, Radmila J. Gorup and Nancy Stern
[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 57] 2006
► pp. 17–39
Columbia School and Saussure’s langue
This paper argues that William Diver’s signal-meaning pair is Saussure’s signe linguistique in all basic respects, and that Diver’s innovation of a grammatical system is the functional equivalent of Saussure’s langue. Thus Columbia School linguistics rests squarely on a Saussurean foundation. In the course of making this case, this paper proposes a resolution of the apparent contradiction between Saussure’s definition of the linguistic sign in terms of substance – the union of concept and acoustic image – and his dictum that “la langue is a form not a substance”.
Published online: 20 December 2006
https://doi.org/10.1075/sfsl.57.04rei
https://doi.org/10.1075/sfsl.57.04rei
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