This work was published in 1916.
The program consists of a series of
concepts and proposals
methodologies that are enunciated
in the form of dichotomies,
reformulated later in other schools.
The forms of relation between
the linguistic elements are
examined from two different
coordinates
The first is the distintion
between language
The term "System" acquires
a specific valve in Saussure
.Signifier, or "acoustic image"
and a meaning or "concept".
(Abstract nature). Language
is spoken of as system of
systems at the various
linguistic levels: Phonemes,
morphemes, Semantems,
etc. They are organize in
subsystems by opposition
relations
Is made up of signs that are
systematically and indendently
of the individual
.Paradigms or in absenetia: They
are governed by the principies of
equivalence (account for the
systematicity of the language).
.Syntagmatic or in praesentia: are
governed by principies of
combining the elements coexist in
the expression. ( account for the
use or performance concrete).
The Linguistic Cricle of Prague
The program of the circle of Prague
turns out to be exposed in the
known theses from the first
congress celebrated in 1929
First
It refers to the
conception of the
language as a
functional system, a
system of means of
expression adapted for
an end.
Second
They determine the
linguistic task: The study of
the phonology, of the
morphology and of the
syntax.
Third
It talks about literary
language specifically.
Formed by investigators
like Jakobson, Trubetzkoy
or Mukarowsky
The phonology as a discipline that
studies the phonological system
of a language across the
structural method.
The structural method.
The structural method
has been applied later to
the morphology, to the
grammatical analysis
and to semantic level.
One of Saussure's
achievements is to have
define science which deals
specifically with the study
of language and linguistics.
It was placed within the
theorical framework used
in social interaction
The semiology, as a
semiological discipline, the
linguistics is the task of
characterizing the
linguistic sign as an
arbitrary or conventional
unit.
Another methodological
distinction is he choice
between Synchronic or
diacrhonic aproach to
the study of linguistic
facts.
Saussure considers that it is
only systematizable the
synchronous.
The dichotomies proposed by
Saussure were necessary in that to
lay the foundations of a general
language. Many of the later currents
take advantage certain contributions
if this program, redefined in the light
of new approaches.
The historical-comparative
linguistics of the XIX focuses on
the descrption of the linguistic
change and the filiation of the
language influenced by the
development of the natural
sciences
The new method begins by defining
the language as an organized
structure in which the units are
described by the relationships they
stablish with each other, that is to
say, they are described from
intrinsic aspects.
The metatheoretical reflection
that develops at the beginning
of the 20th century responds to
the need to delimit a specific
object of study and a suitable
method that allows its
exhaustive analysis.
Epistemological foundations 20th
Century Linguistics.