This video estimates the content of Ferdinand de Saussure’s essay ‘The Nature of Linguistic Sign’. This essay explains that language is much more than ‘a tool’ or ‘an instrument’. It embodies psychological process of connecting’a sound image’ with ‘a concept’ as a bilateral function. Language as a system of conceptual and phonetics units, rest on “Langue” and “Parole” for ‘Diachronic and Synchronic’ studies with two axes, namely Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic making room for ‘Choices’ and ‘needs’ in expression. The video contains -
1. About Saussure
2. What is a Sign?
3. Two Focal Components of a Sign
4. Propounded Three Related Concepts
5. Distinction between Langue and Parole
6. Relationality of language rests on two axes
‘Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic’
7. Contrast of “Diachronic and Synchronic”
Ferdinand de Saussure
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