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.