Arbitrariness and its Opposites: What Saussure Did and Did Not Say

John Joseph

Arbitrariness and its Opposites: What Saussure Did and Did Not Say

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) is famous for asserting the arbitrariness of the linguistic sign. But what precisely arbitrariness meant and did not mean for him is not as well understood as one might wish. This chapter looks in particular at how the idea of arbitrariness relates to iconicity, a phenomenon that Saussure did not deny, but explored in some of his lesser-known publications

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cem anos con Saussure
Subtitle of host publication	Textos de Congresso Internacional
Editors	Waldir Beividas, Ivã Carlos Lopes, Sémir Badir
Place of Publication	Sao Paulo, Brazil
Publisher	Annablume
Pages	293-310
Number of pages	14
Volume	2
ISBN (Print)	978-85-391-0768-1
Publication status	Published - 7 Sept 2016

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

Saussure
linguistic sign
arbitrariness of the sign
iconicity

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