Structuralism

De definition about language as a system of signs constructed by convention was credited by...

• Noam Chomsky

• Ferdinand de Saussure

• Louis Hjelmslev

• Roman Jakobson,

According to Saussure the universal and innate capacity in human beings corresponds to ....

• Parole

• Langue

• Langage

• Linguistics

According to Saussure the social use of language corresponds to

• Parole

• Langue

• Langage

• Linguistics

According to Saussure the concrete use of the language that each individual has, corresponds to ...

• Langage

• Langue

• Parole

• Diachrony

This perspective means that language is studied at a specific point in time.

• Synchrony

• Diachrony

• Duality

• Arbitrariness

It is an abstract structure whose instances participate in a linguistic system

• Signified

• Signifier

• Linguistic Sign

• Langue

It refers to the acoustic image, or the graphic representation

• Linguistic sign

• Signifier

• Signified

• Icon

It refers to the concept and a sound (or a series of sounds.

concept, the meaning.

• Linguistic Sign

• Signified

• Signier

• Icon

According to Saussure the casual relation that cause a natural resemblance between the signifier and signified

• Arbitrariness

• Onomatopoeia

• Motivation

• Non motivation

According to Saussure the relationship between the signified and signified is purely conventional in the sense that it is a product of a historical tradition within a linguistic community. He called it

• Motivation

• Non-motivated words

• Onomatopoeia

• external linguistics