Sahand Elhami is the translator of the book published by Markaz. This is the first English-language guidebook geared at an interdisciplinary audience that reflects relevant scholarly developments ...

This dissertation has three parts. The first one, devoted to the Saussurean concept of "system", aims at showing that there are variations in Saussure's development, and that is possible to identify ...

2016 celebrated the centenary of Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistic. This key work in the intellectual history of the twentieth century has traditionally generated an image of ...

I have a meta-question for you this week. It seems to me that you receive a tremendous number of messages along the lines of “is such and such a thing hipster or not hipster?” Although the subjects of ...

"In a language there are only differences without positive terms. Whether we take the signified or the signifier, the language contains neither ideas nor sounds that pre-exist the linguistic system, ...

John A. Goldsmith is intrigued by the life of a linguistics giant who felt himself to be a failure. “Any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats,” wrote George Orwell. Each ...