Course in General Linguistics - Ferdinand la Saussure - Bog

The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students'' notes after Saussure''s death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure''s new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such diverse areas as art, architecture, folklore, literary criticism, and philosophy.