"The West's 'father of structuralism', Ferdinand de Saussure (1857– 1913), spent his academic career in Paris studying…"

"As long as the activity of linguists was limited to comparing one language with another, this general utility cannot …"

"The subject matter of linguistics comprises all manifestations of human speech, whether that of savages or civilized …"

"The scope of linguistics should be:"

"Language is a system of signs that express ideas, and is therefore comparable to a system of writing, the alphabet of…"

"Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise."

"Thus we may found the science for the study of the life of signs against the background of social life; it would form…"

"The causes of continuity are a priori within the scope of the observer, but the causes of change in time are not. It …"

"La langue est un systéme dont toutes les parties peuvent et doivent être considérés dans leur solidarité synchronique."

"The aim of general synchronic linguistics is to set up the fundamental principles of any idiosynchronic system, the c…"