He contrasted abstract grammatical structures and everyday utterances, or langue (LONG) and parole (puh-ROLE), and argued for the arbitrariness of the sign, composed of signal and signification.
This man argued that deformations should be put into their own categories, as they are "teratological" cases. This man contrasts two concepts by positing the formulas one plus one plus one repeating equals I versus one plus one prime plus one double prime et cetera, and uses the analogy of changing the number of pieces on a chessboard versus changing the pieces to ivory to distinguish between internal and external. This man's theory of sonant (SOH-nahnt) coefficients was proven fifty years after its proposal by the discovery of (*) Hittite (HIT-ahyt) texts. The "AB" and "CD" axes are used to illustrate his idea that analysis should be conducted both at a fixed time and across time, called the synchronic (syn-KRON-ik) and diachronic (dahy-uh-KRON-ik) approaches. He contrasted abstract grammatical structures and everyday utterances, or langue (LONG) and parole (puh-ROLE), and argued for the arbitrariness of the sign, composed of signal and signification. For 10 points, name this father of semiotics whose notes were compiled into the Course in General Linguistics.
This man argued that deformations should be put into their own categories, as they are "teratological" cases.
Ferdinand de Saussure (soh-SYR)