Beata Stawarska, "Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: 'The Course in General Linguistics' after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
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Sesser's Quintessential to Syrianism
The famous concluding lines of the course that language is an object that paraphrasing should be studied in itself and towards own sake. It's interesting to note that the line is apocryphal, there are no sources in the materials from the Nakhlas that justify the insertion of these famous concluding lines to the course. And so I think that the kind of the morale of the story is that the academy benefits from diversity, because then ideas themselves are likely to be more complex and richer as well. But we definitely find a great emphasis on on a point of view in the source material materials social emphasizes on several occasions that the object in linguistics is not a self standing fact that exists in the
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