Ferdinand de Saussure

He is widely

acknowledged as the founding father of modern

linguistics......

• Rasmus Rask

• Plato

• Ferdinand de Saussure

• Aristotle

This is a historical and evolutionary study; attends to the changes that occur in the language over time.

• Diachrony

• Linguistic

• Synchrony

• Signifier

Saussure considers language as a double object where each of its parts is valid only in relation to the other, it is say that the parts are not worth for themselves or for their reality substantial, but by the fact of being opposed to others. Saussure captures this double approach in the formulation of .....................................

• Arbitrary

• Synchrony

• Dichotomies.

• Diachrony

This is the language is studied at a specific point in time.

• Structuralist

• Diachrony

• Linguistic Sign

• Synchrony

This images corresponds to.......

• sentence sign

• Theory linguistic sign

• word´s theory

• arbitrary

The physical existence (sound, word, image) is........

• Sign

• Signified

• Signifier

• Thing

The

signified is..........

• The form, sound

• The mental concept

• The object

• structuralism

The

relationship of sound and meaning is .....

According to Saussure, ----------------------- is a complex phenomenon in

which two levels can be discerned; langue and parole.

• Speech

• System

• Semiotic

• Language