索绪尔语言学分析.docx

Discourse Analysis of Saussure’s Linguistics and Influence 作者：百香果巨无霸 Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist and semiotician. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiology in the 20th century.[1] He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics [2] and one of two major founders (together with Charles Sanders Peirce) of semiotics.[3] After a short brief introduction of Saussure, I would like to summarize his theories of linguistics. At first, Saussure divided language into langue and parole. Langue is a social part of linguistics, also known as a kind of social phenomenon. Parole is subject to mankind because it is our words, phrases and sentences. Besides, in Saussure’s part, linguistics is a system of semiotics. Semiology consists of signifier and signified. Signifier means concept while signified means vocal trace. In the meantime, Saussure considered that symbol is arbitrary. Linguistics is systematic and exists the relationship between sentence and association. At last, we can study linguistics by means of synchronic and diachronic according to Saussure’s theory. I have thought about his theory and I am interested in one of his study points called Semiology. Consequently, will analyze it more internal and try to express my real feelings. Semiology, or sign process, is any form of activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, including the production of meaning. A sign is anything that communicates a meaning, that is not the sign itself, to the interpreter of the sign. The meaning can be intentional such as a word uttered with a specific meaning, or unintentional, such as a symptom being a sign of a particular medical condition. Signs can communicate through any of the senses, visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, or taste. Semiology has a feature that all the signs only can be expressed one by one, it’s easy for us to get this points. We speak out a paragraph and we need to pronounc