Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale has been one of the seminal books of the twentieth century, having shaped modern linguistics and semiology, and having importantly affected anthropology, philosophy and literary studies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The notes taken by Saussure's student Emile Constantin were not available to the editors of the published "Cours de Linguistique Generale" (1916), and came to light only after World War II. They have never been published in their entirety...read more

Course notes recorded by students at the University of Geneva and the Swiss professor's personal notes form the bases for examination of de Saussure's pioneering work on the functional and structural aspects of human speech