How Saussure is misinterpreted in Cognitive Grammar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4473712 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yanfei Zhang (0000-0002-4106-4727, Shandong University , Jinan , China), Shaojie Zhang (0000-0003-1079-9680, Northeast Normal University , Jilin , China, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 2021 |
| Issue | 239 |
| Pages | 243-264 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/sem-2018-0102 |
| OpenAlex | W3130002409 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 19 |
As the father of modern linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure influences all aspects of linguistic development with no exception of Cognitive Grammar. A scrutiny of how Saussure is understood in Cognitive Grammar indicates that Saussurean linguistics is misinterpreted in terms of five core ideas: (1) langue, rather than parole, is given highest priority; (2) the internal relation of "signifier-signified" counts as the pairing of "form-meaning"; (3) "arbitrariness" is contradictory to "symbolicity"; (4) "arbitrariness" means "unmotivatedness"; (5) arbitrariness is not the inherent nature of morphological and syntactic structures. This paper is intended to reassess these five ideas and argue that they depart further from Saussure's thought
Arbitrariness · Cognition · Cognitive grammar · Cognitive linguistics · Epistemology · Grammar · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Relation (database) · Computer Science · Gender Studies in Language · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
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