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Saussurean, a.|səʊˈs(j)ʊəriːən|
Also Saussurian.
[f. the name Saussure (see below) + -an.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Swiss scholar Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913) or his linguistic theories. Hence as n., an adherent of these theories; also Sauˈssureanism.
1937J. Orr tr. I. Iordan's Introd. Romance Linguistics iii. 194 His [sc. Gilliéron's] linguistic is descriptive, or, in the Saussurian terminology, ‘synchronic’. 1939P. Christophersen Articles 16 A word has thus two aspects: verbal image and meaning (in the well-known Saussurean terms: signifiant and signifié). 1943Language XIX. 55 In its essence it is Saussurean, but differs in certain respects also from the practices of the major European groups that follow the teachings of Saussure. 1952Word VIII. 264 Eleven papers are devoted to general problems and methodology, among them..the Saussurean opposition between synchrony and diachrony. 1954Ibid. X. 391 Orthodox Saussureanism of the Geneva school. 1968J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Linguistics ix. 429 This fact is expressed in Saussurean terms by saying that each language imposes a specific form on the a priori undifferentiated substance of the content-plane. 1971[see parole n. 3]. 1975Lass & Anderson Old Eng. Phonol. iv. i. 117 Without adhering to the Saussurean dichotomy one can still realize that diachronic evidence does not crucially determine choices for synchronic ordering. 1977Language LIII. 391 The history of Saussureanism—perhaps one of the most challenging topics that a historian of linguistics could undertake. Ibid. 398 As a Saussurean, K views with suspicion any suggestion ‘that linguistics might not yet have reached the status of an autonomous science’. |