Saussure

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani sees Saussure as the starting point of contemporary linguistics, founded as a structural and synchronic linguistics1. He borrows from him the notion of synchrony, which he uses as early as a session on Rousseau2, and notes that Saussure restores this dimension of language, which philology had neglected3. He takes up several theses of the Course in General Linguistics: the arbitrariness of the sign, the double articulation specific to human language4, the independence of signifier and signified, the distinction between language, langue and parole, and a linguistic relevance based on opposition between terms. He notes that this distinction between langue and parole leaves aside continuous variables5, which matters for his thinking about music. His position on structuralism differs from one session to another. He makes Saussure's structural linguistics the root of structuralism6. Elsewhere, he presents him as a scientist rather than an ideologue, and even as "not a structuralist". He also cites glossematics as an extension of his thought and links Nerval to phonological problems approached through him.

1. 1Racine4 Feb 2019 · 32:09
2. 2#2 Rousseau, un monde qui commence20 Sept 2014 · 29:10
3. 3Debussy27 Mar 2020 · 42:57
4. 4Clouscard et le problème de Socrate14 Oct 2022 · 56:50
5. 5Musicosophie 7. Les Grecs, le mythe et la musique17 Dec 2020 · 37:01
6. 6Les Veaux et les choses (2) : L'écologisme stade ultime du capitalisme ?5 Oct 2020 · 8:48

Summary produced automatically from 15 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.