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Saussure and literary theory: from the perspective of linguistics
Author(s) -
FABB NIGEL
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
critical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1467-8705
pISSN - 0011-1562
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8705.1988.tb00303.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , citation , linguistics , sociology , philosophy , computer science , library science , artificial intelligence
This article is about why the state of affairs exists where Saussure has become a ‘prophet without honour’ in linguistics but a father-figure in literary and cultural studies. My argument is basically that Saussure’s linguistics is not appropriate to the study of language, though as a methodology it might be adopted in other areas