sopa de letras (activity)

well in this activity you have to find the name of some concepts that were invented by Saussure.

Video links about the main contributions by Saussure

Abstract and Concrete  :    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edPEN63awto


Parole and Langue :    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz3XVTNukgw



Signifie and Significant :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7_KcBAvIAE



So they are links that can help you to understand the concepts invented by Saussure .

MAINS CONTRIBUTION BY SAUSSURE

• semiotic:

       It is the study of signs, their forms of expression and contents. So what is a sign?

       Maybe the best defi nition is the one that just states that signs in the non-metaphorical

       sense are phenomena produced intentionally by humans and taken by humans to show the

       intention of the producer, and its content.

• Signifier: It’s the pointing finger, the word, the sound- image

•  Signified: It’s the concept, the meaning, the thing indicated the signifier. It does not need to be a real object but is some referent to which the signifier refers.

• Synchronic Language: It is the study of the language in a specific time.

• Diachronic Language: It is the study of the language in some points in time.
• langue: language as a system. it is any particular language that it is the common possession of all the members of a given language community.
• parole: language behavior. how a person speaks , it does not matter if it is correct or incorrect.
• Linguistic sign, le signifie.

• Linguistic sign , le significant.

• concret concept.

• abstract concept.

Biography of Saussure

Ferdinand Desaussure was  born in 1857 and died in 1913

• He studied in the shcool of neogrammarians which was focused in renovating the methods for the comparative grammar.

• In 1879 he successfully published a memoir on the primitive system of vowels in Indo-European languages​​.

• A year later he read his doctoral thesis on the use of the genitive absolute in Sanskrit (1880), from which he was appointed professor of comparative grammar at the Ecole des Hauts Etudes de Paris, and participated actively in the work of the Society linguistics.

• Although the impact of this work was not immediate, they proved decisive for the development of linguistics in the twentieth century. In their lessons should be a number of fundamental distinctions such as language (ideal system and social) andspeech (specific embodiment, individual), but especially his definition of sign as apsychic entity made ​​up of a signifier and a signified, the which would beinseparable.
  
  Indeed, the relationship of meaning to be thought from a theory of value, ie the possibility of referring to something outside of language depends on the total language system and the formal relationship of the terms together. This idea is the basis of structuralism, linguistic theory that enjoyed a boom in France during the 1950 and 1960.