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(Some such insight, it seems to me, lies behind the binary emphasis of Saussurean linguistics as well as the poststructuralist claim that language cannot refer to anything outside itself.)
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Everybody (including yours truly) was completely clueless about the subject and when the Professor said "Okay, who wants to present on Saussurean Linguistics next week?" we were like "Hoh?".
natinski Diary Entry natinski 2004
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This invokes the ever popular Saussurean sign, which had two parts: "sign / signifier" leaving ambiguous what the "signifier" is.
COMIXTALK 2009
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Playing loose with Saussurean linguistics, the artist selects signifiers without concrete signifieds, which explains why he prefers verbs, adjectives, and adverbs to nouns.
artforum.com 2009
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Linguistic structures are pairings of meaning and form; such pairings are known as [[Ferdinand de Saussure | Saussurean]] [[linguistic sign | signs]].
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Rewriting the Saussurean model for a design perspective would look like this: S - signifier, the expression, The FORM, the aesthetics, Objective - outer world s - signified, the content, The CONCEPT, what it stands for, Subjective - innerworld The signifier is the physical form of an object; what we see, touch and smell in the objective and shared reality.
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This invokes the ever popular Saussurean sign, which had two parts: "sign / signifier" leaving ambiguous what the "signifier" is.
COMIXTALK 2009
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Linguistic structures are pairings of meaning and form; such pairings are known as [[Ferdinand de Saussure | Saussurean]] [[linguistic sign | signs]].
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The blackmailing results in Ximena's loss of income, job, and her sense of value - to get all Saussurean on your ass -
Brit Lit Blogs 2008
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Saussure’s most characteristic ideas have British or American sources, including the most distinctively Saussurean idea of all: In a language there are only differences without positive terms.
Saussure's ambivalent involvement with Sanskrit Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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