Psychology Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology... Ferdinand de Saussure 30
Psychology It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it... Ferdinand de Saussure 24
Truth Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth. Ferdinand de Saussure 26
Communication Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations,... Ferdinand de Saussure 26
