SCHOOL OF LINGUISTICS A Linguist => Ferdinand de saussure What is Linguistics?

SCHOOL OF LINGUISTICS


A Linguist => Ferdinand de saussure


What is Linguistics?

Linguistics is the study of Language, As we know, language is more obviously.

Language

~ Language and man, the unique creature that obviously differentiate to other creatures.
~ Man is thinking animal.
~ There is no single answer what language is all about, because a complex entity, which difficult to talk about it is a single whole in any meaningful.
~Functional sides of language
    a. Language is used to communicate message from a source to receiver.
    b.The message is transmitted either vocally through speech, graphically through writing/drawing,           and visually through signing.
Saussure
Ferdinand de saussure is Swiss modern linguist.
 ~ Acoustic => media to produce sound
 ~ Associative - center => message (the mental of image)

Saussure said there are two sides to language:

1. Language : The part of language which is not complete in any individual, but exists only in ceollectivity. ( Saussure, 1969 :30)

2. Parole      : Observable in the behavior of the individual.


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