[Ads-l] Antedating of "Semiology"

[Shapiro, Fred]

semiology (OED, 3., 1923)

1917 The Year's Work in Classical Studies 1916, page 34 (Google Books)

Language he [Saussure] rightly regards as a social institution, and the most important of a series of different kinds of signs by which social life is carried on, and for which he demands a separate place as a science, which he calls semiology.

Fred Shapiro


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