Saussure by Joseph, John E. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Part I. The World Into Which He Was Born

1. Rising to prominence

Switzerland and its neighbour, Geneva The noble Saulxures of Lorraine In Monsieur Calvin’s Geneva Becoming bourgeois Horace-Bénédict de Saussure Reforming the Collège de Genève The glory of Mont Blanc, the infamy of the Revolution

2. His grandparents’ and parents’ generations

The Congress of Vienna Albertine Necker de Saussure Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure Alphonse de Saussure Fanny Crud Count Alexandre de Pourtalès Augusta Saladin de Crans The Genevese Revolution of 1846–1848 Théodore de Saussure Adèle Pictet Henri de Saussure Countess Louise de Pourtalès

3. The heritage of linguistics and semiology

Continuity and progress The history of linguistics according to Saussure The emergence of linguistic thought in Greece The Christian Middle Ages Renaissance and Enlightenment The encounter with Sanskrit and the beginnings of comparativism The vowels of primitive Indo-European

Part II. Early Years to the MéMoire

4. 1857–1873

Birth and childhood Mons-Djémila and Henri Dunant Hofwyl The Franco-Prussian War Institution Martine Infatuation Collège de Genève

5. 1873–1876

First love Gymnase de Genève Adolphe Pictet ‘Essay for reducing the words of Greek, Latin & German to a few roots’ Tragedy and triumph Université de Genève

6. 1876–1878

Société de linguistique de Paris To Leipzig Courses at Leipzig First publications Indo-European a Family matters and military service Remembering Pictet

7. The Mémoire on the original vowel system of the Indo-European languages

Getting there first The Neogrammarian manifesto Reclaiming simplicity, relocating complexity: a1 and the sonant coefficients Phonemes Disyllabic roots Laws and dogma The book’s reception Möller and laryngeals

Part III. Doctorate and Paris Years

8. 1879–1881

Berlin and Whitney Retreat to Geneva, return to Leipzig The Sanskrit genitive absolute Voyage to Lithuania To Paris The école Pratique des Hautes études

9. 1881–1884

First courses Inner speech and linguistic signs Learning to teach Dismantling the phoneme Difference and intentionality Adjunct Secretary Weddings Publications

10. 1884–1888

‘Theoretical explanations’ and ‘Generalities about linguistic method and the life of language’ Théodore de Saussure’s book on the French language Teaching Family crisis Lean years

11. 1888–1891

Courtship Friends and rivals Leave René de Saussure and difference Return and adieu to Paris

Part IV. Return to Geneva

12. 1891–1894

Inaugural lectures Double essence Marriage and family Coloured hearing ‘The immensity of the work’

13. 1894–1899

The International Congress of Orientalists Pro and contra Whitney Grief and grievances Indogermanische Forschungen articles and other writings The spirit world Lectures on the syllable

14. 1899–1903

Léopold de Saussure’s colonial linguistics Fin de siècle French versification Dialect research and local place names Postscript from Mars Publication by proxy: Naville

15. 1903–1906

Legends and myths Personal legend Publication by proxy: Odier Losing his parents From Saturnian metre to anagrams Another responsibility

16. 1907–1908

The first course in general linguistics Rethinking phonology Signalling linguistics proper February break Language change Language and speech Order and linearity Diachronic and synchronic René and Esperanto, Léopold and Chinese astronomy Landmarks

Part V. Final Flourish

17. 1908–1909

The second course in general linguistics: the individual and the social Semiology Units and values Diachronic, (idio)synchronic, and panchronic linguistics Return to Paris Syntagms and associations Abandoning anagrams The Jubilees of Calvin and the Académie

18. 1909–1911

Comparative grammar of Greek and Latin The third course in general linguistics Linguistic geography A new course: la langue Arbitrariness and linearity Entities, units, identities Limiting the arbitrary The fourth course in general linguistics? Static linguistics: one last go

19. The end: 1911–1913

Home and away Last work And so to bed William Rosier Bally and the Chair of Stylistics ‘Anodyne jokes at my expense’ Getting personal Pyrrhic victory January–February 1913 Reactions

20. Opus posthumous

The Cours de linguistique générale Friends and family Structuralism and its aftermath Saussurean studies

Notes Selected Bibliography of work on Saussure Index

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