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From Saussure to sociology and back to linguistics: Niklas Luhmann’s reception of signifiant/signifié and langue/parole as the basis for a model of language change

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Abstract

The article highlights a semiotically relevant aspect of Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems: its reception of the Saussurean dichotomies signifiant/signifié and langue/parole. Luhmann’s position is weighted against the Cours as well as Saussure’s original writings, sampling their approaches to form, meaning, the sign’s two-sidedness, and the relation of linguistic structure and speech events. Ultimately, the article proposes a social ontology of linguistic abstraction in line with general semiology that explains the motility of language through communication, thereby accounting for variability and optionality. It also indicates as to how the theoretical framework can feed into a model of linguistic description.

Acknowledgement

This article is a revised and expanded version of a presentation given at the nineteenth Congrès international des linguistes in Geneva in 2013.

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  23. Netizen communicology: China daily and the Internet construction of group culture
  24. Questions toward a Peircean phenomenological description of association
  25. Colonial bodies: Slavery, wage-slavery, and the representation of race
  26. Discourse analysis with Peirce? Making sense of discursive regularities: The case of online university prospectuses
  27. Heidegger and the signs of history
  28. To be continued: meaning-making in serialized manga as functional-multimodal narrative
  29. Empiricism within the limits of postmodernism alone: On the emergence of the logically real within the multi-perspectival field
  30. Propaganda mala fide: Towards a comparative semiotics of violent religious persuasion
  31. Review article
  32. Peircean visual semiotics: Potentials to be explored
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