Ferdinand de Saussure and Structural Linguistics

A Short Introduction to the key concepts of Ferdinand de Saussure and Structural Linguistics

[@natashablowers3489]

You've literally explained in 5 minutes what my lecturer took 3 hours to explain, this has helped me so much thank you for this!

[@AsherJKlassen]

You say language is a system of differences, but how can you be Saussure?

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[@ya__basic]

OMG that made me laugh!

[@hssy2jrocker]

The word Saussure here is a parole or langue?

[@shreyabansal5733]

no

[@AlwaysLoveBlueEyes]

Very informative, thanks! - a confused student from Humanities class

[@samuelschererz6043]

I understood it better in English in 5 minutes than from my teacher in my native language in over an hour. Thank you

[@oops4044]

Very nice explanation. I feel my brain has grown.

[@Anna-xu4qw]

Clearest explanation yet, hope you have more in the series to come!

[@Mist_R]

and I ended up watching cat videos instead of studying, after watching this one. great..

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i love cat

[@jamiepollard7857]

I'll have a lesson on Saussure tomorrow, and I feel well prepared now. thank you, good video.

[@akshaypuradkar1568]

i'm surprised how much of the material is covered in just 5 minutes. hope to see more. maybe bloomfield's take on saussure, and then zellig, and so on. :D maybe i'm being too greedy.

[@mehdimerin9169]

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[@EduardoN]

Oh my, loved it! It has helped me a lot since I'm attending Portuguese as a major course at college. I've found the video very simple and well explained, thanks a lot.

[@jamesreynolds8077]

Incredibly helpful for trying to make Structural Linguistics stick... thank you very much!

[@Voltanaut]

This was absolutely wonderful and has aided my studies beyond proclamation! Thank you so damn much!

[@aluciabarreto]

It is a very good introduction in this complex subject.... It is clear and objective. Congrats !

[@JorgeGaleano1987]

Thanks for making this video There's a lot of text I must read for my Linguistics class, and I needed some brief introduction.

[@ciprianoprea2045]

From my experience of learning linguistics (from Saussure) I found that the signifier is not a phisycal sound but a sound image in our brain (the brain thinks through words). In this video the signifier reffers to (the sound of the letters, it should be specified that (the sound) is not a phonetical one but something else). I find this video interesting though. (sorry for my english, I'm not a native english speaker.)

[@akshaypuradkar1568]

hmmm! same. I think chomsky makes it clear,. signifier could be held to be lower than mere utterances, something general, like I-language representation that's then externalized into utterances(both sound & text of 'cat' being separate). but then, there's another trouble of having multiple such internal representations & the whole affair quickly gets psychological.

[@ciprianoprea2045]

Yes indeed !

[@Mitchell-vk4zy]

I'm reading Saussure's text and I think you're right. He's pretty explicit about the signifier *not* being a spoken utterance.

[@boubekeurabdelmadjid6132]

@@Mitchell-vk4zy can you help me ? please ! 💓

[@Mitchell-vk4zy]

itsMUHAMMED Oh, man. I wish I could. I honestly don’t even remember making this comment.

[@jasmine3250]

Thank you! This is SO helpful. The book I'm stuck reading is a DRAG and this brought the ideas to life!

[@prabhnoorgill5313]

I have a Linguistics exam in a week and here I am learning about completely new things..... wow!

[@KokkieSmilez]

Great video, really compact summary of what de Saussure created. Thanks for helping me understand!

[@kylita4299]

wow you talk so fast. my brain can't take it all immediately 😭

[@mehdimerin9169]

true

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Ya me too

[@CarlosHerivelto]

LOved. I learn a lot from videos like these, i like the voice explaining and behind the photos and text and the movment. Thank very much for posting it

[@bilggesu]

you saved my life and i am not joking THIS IS GREAT???

[@Houtary]

Many thanks. You have elucidated structuralism in a very simple yet precise way.

[@carlapatriciacastillocalvi7125]

This video is really helpful and nice. Thanks a bunch for sharing it.

[@telheibalairenlakpam7923]

Thank you!!!!!! Have been listening to and reading loads of nonsense!!! Thank you again.

[@vwcanter]

I don’t see how anyone could argue that you can’t have a thought or mental image or idea without a signifier or word. That part seems preposterous. It’s true that you can’t very well _communicate_ an idea without a word (or combination of words) or sign (or combination of signs) for it. But it is obvious that we have many ideas, thoughts, and mental images without any such sign. It is even obvious to me that the majority of our thoughts are of this kind. So there are many more ideas and thoughts than there are signifiers. In order to have a shared sign at all, it has to be assigned to a thought that people can share. Obviously, two people can behold the same cat or touch or otherwise sense the same cat. So the sign - sound “cat” makes perfect sense to everyone. Other concepts can not be referred to that way, because they cannot be seen or sensed directly. For example, a cat has some force that imparts animation to it, which is why we call it an “animal”. Whatever that force is, we can not see it. But certainly, we can see breathing. So we take the Latin name for “breath” and we use it to name that force that imparts animation to a thing. The “spiritus”, the “breath”. We use the language of the shared observation to describe the phenomenon that is not a shared observation. Much of the cleverness of language lies in that ability. In other experiences, no such word is adequate, and for that reason, we have many other art forms. Literature is one, which uses words, but music and visual art do the same thing without words. As do actions. In fact, if words were able to communicate those internal experiences, we would not have those art forms.

[@BerndSchiel]

Amazing explanation, very helpful. Thank you!

[@SugarDemon1035]

Thank you so much... This helped me and my classmates a whole lot in my intro to literary theory course.

[@ekonoreva]

this is a great video! short, comprehensive, and smart. thank you.

[@lin3537]

I have tomorrow an exam about this in French, I finally understood. Thanks

[@EverythingNiss]

Amazing video and wonderfully explained! The graphics did a great job of making it make sense!

[@TripleMinds]

So much clearer than my course! Wow thanks.

[@sadafkhan1679]

Packed with information n super easy to understand.... Thanks a ton

[@halilunes7007]

While studying for the exam of English Methods and Aproaches... Greetings to Saussure

[@jasonhu7399]

Awesome! Great graph and table in the Paradigm and Syntagm contrast!

[@Hannah-tg8hw]

Well, in English we don’t start with a “tl” sequence but we do end with the “tl” sequence in words such as “little”.

[@arbinbasnet4129]

we have to read this in our college and now this chapter is running...i learn something from this thanks for that... but still i dont know more things. and please upload more videos if u have of this subject

[@regexRex]

Upvoted for cats.

[@matthewj6872]

Concise, helpful video. Merci beaucoup pour le partage à ce sujet

[@alifarman5452]

Excellent explanation,I feel my brain has grown

[@christinegeorge18]

studying for an exam and this video helped a lot!

[@aaaight]

Langue = language, langage = human speech, parole = speaking

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Thank a lot for this explanation 🙏🏼

[@BloodySunnday]

Very helpful! Thanks

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The beautiful explanation you made it very clear thank you so much

[@yaldamerza8818]

Awesome explanation.Thank you.Hope to see more drone you talking about the same subject.

[@bebo863]

I have learned alot in 5mins more than I did in class

[@SchoolCompanion]

Best video..thanks..why don't you come with another video?😊

[@zozmozoz]

Thank you very much, but the way you are talking is like you are addressing your speech only to native speakers .. I have found difficulties hearing many terms and concepts.

[@fatboi99]

Brilliant, thankyou so much.

[@haninasher9117]

Thank you for the nice and clear illustration.

[@michaelsmdk]

Very good video, helped me a lot with homework. thank you!

[@vellasvellas9128]

Thank you so much that was really helpful ! I hope you will do the same with other topics like : Socioligistics for e.g

[@MrDarcy-nq5jy]

Awesome video, thank you! Hope it will help me with my exam!

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[@annamozna301]

Thank you so much, I think I'm finally starting to understand it.

[@regapesoli5138]

absolutely perfect , this was a perfect books that i was read and it has contains the important things of knowledge in linguistics, the others topics i want was pragmatics from JL. Austins

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[@horacioquintana2263]

Wonderful summary! Thanks!

[@Garland41]

I have one objection. In Part 2 Chapter 1 of the Course in General Linguistics, the Open Court Publication, it states " In practice, a linguistic state occupies not a point in time, but a period of time of varying length, during which the sum total of changes occurring is minimal. It may be ten years, a generation, a century, or even longer. A language may hardly change at all for a long period, only to undergo considerable changes in the next few years." (pg. 99) "One could likewise say that static linguistics is also in this sense concerned with epochs; but the term state is preferable. The beginning and end of an epoch are usually marked by some more or less sudden upheaval which tends to alter the established order. The term state avoids the suggestion that anything like that occurs in a language." (Pg. 100) "So the notion of a linguistic state can only be an approximation." (Pg. 100) My critique is minor in the fact that the video states that synchronic study only occurs at one point in time. Again this detail is minor, but the synchronic structure should be based upon not only a state of time which little alteration occurs, but then comes into play with diachrony slightly just by design. What does that mean? In mathematics they have summations, and where this connects with linguistics are these states in time where the words remain the same to which we can add them up in order to not only determine the etymology of the word, the gymnastics of the linguistic world, but to see the phonological changes (and possibly more) which caused this shift in language. So, my basic critique is the unexplored idea of what synchrony is and can be.

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I've stumbled in a lot of anime videos before I actually got here even though this particular video is the reason why I browsed my KZbin. 😭

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Very nice explanation. thanks

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Great explanation, thank you!

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[@mohaamadqabaa1504]

Beautiful

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Thanks a lot, a great summary with everything I need in it :)

[@fishbird1111]

Excellent explanation, cheers

[@markmal3258]

Sooo clear and well-made. Make more, please!!??

[@mjj_]

Thanks so much!!!

[@Arliexzter]

Thanks! I see the light now!

[@gisellevu3635]

0:52 always cracks me up i can't

[@hangryhoney5]

This was very helpful. Thank you Bella. :)

[@priseliavandy8113]

Ross the video is helpful, even though may be because my internet connectivity isn't that good, making it difficult for me to view the full scene, some concepts are not clearly understood. however, am catching up with the topic. thanks so much.

[@mariammskh]

thank you so much 💕 everything was so clear

[@masudparvejsani]

Thanks a lot!!!

[@TheBigCrossGaming]

Thank you so much! This helped tremendously. It's strange that there is not much material on the difference. I owe you a coffee :)

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[@tinelle100]

thank you very much

[@louismvega]

I heard "not the difference" and after replaying the segment over a few times I finally heard "note the difference". 🙃

[@DeepaliY]

Very wisely crafted

[@mihoubighanem]

That was very helpful. Thank you!

[@DSAK55]

should have mentioned Charles Sanders Peirce

[@islemayad1539]

AWESOME video thanks a lot !

[@paulingraham6781]

A handy couplet from my own cranium: Civilization need not preserve the use of verbs Unless its apparati be left so on the curbs.

[@agnesnagy1049]

amazing explanation. thank you

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Wow thank you a great video!

[@dragitoutofme]

this is a great video, thank you for your time. fyi, though, the sound quality is bad. i had it on max and could barely hear.

[@madnomadart]

Nice education thanks

[@sunnykim9917]

Thank you for your summary. So, he claimed “language is a STATIC system of interconnected units.” Interesting.

[@aitmbarkamine6793]

Thank you for this video. I have one remark and please correct me if I'm wrong. The G in Syntagm is silent like the one in paradigm (sɪntæm)

[@humbertocabrera2077]

This video was awesome it helped me a lot!!! Btw what software did you use to make that video??

[@Docteurdeyagoubis]

thank you it is very helpful

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[@megandent5169]

Why do thinkers and ideas men make things so complicated thank god for youtube

[@nehasaraf4292]

Merci! Cela m’a aidé! :)

[@bergg2009]

Shouldn't it be: Language is a highly "dynamic" system? There is of course a difference of staticdynamicity between content and functional words or phonotactic constrains and productivity. Grammar in a sense of "Langue", but Mental Lexicon/s is/are probably more in a sence of "Parole".

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Very nice.

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great vid! thanks!

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