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October 16, 2019 • 18:21 pm 0 points
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What is the meaning of ?langue? in Saussurean linguistics ?

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    Ferdinand de Saussure argued for dividing language into three levels, langage, by which he meant the human capacity to evolve sign systems, langue, the system of language that is the rules and conventions which organize it, and parole, any individual utterance or the individual's use of language. Langue has little to do with individuals, and consists of signs organized into a system and expressive of ideas. As the signs constituting it are arbitrary and purely conventional, it is the differences between them that confer meaning upon them. Langue can therefore be said to be an organized system of differences. Langue is the object of semiology, or the science that studies the life of signs within society.

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