Saussure

[Leila Monaghan]

Don't know whether this is new to you guys but it was news to me--a 
copy of Saussure's original manuscript of his work was found in his 
summer house in 1996 and has been published in French in 2002, reviewed 
by Roy Harris in England in 2002 and will be published by Oxford 
University Press this summer.  Turns out that the students transcribing 
his lectures got some things wrong.  One big difference seems to be 
(according to David McNeill, I haven't been able to get a hold of any 
of the below references yet) that Saussure doesn't reject diachronic 
analysis entirely and instead talks about the "double essence of 
language".  Very Interesting Indeed!

References I have found below,

all best,

Leila

Roy Harris's review:

Harris, R. 2002. Why Words Really Do Not Stay Still. Times Literary 
Supplement, July 26, 5182:30.


http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2070761169/qid=1144622407/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_1_2/403-7129791-7654009

http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Linguistics/TheoreticalDescriptiveLinguistic/?view=usa&ci=9780199261444


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Leila Monaghan, PhD
Department of Communication and Culture
Indiana University
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