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Glossematics is a modern linguistic theory which, to a greater degree than any other, is influenced by the Cours de Linguistique Générale of the Genevan professor of linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913).
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E.g. E. Buyssens, Mise au point de quelques notions fondamentales de la phonologie, Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure 8 (1949), p. 37–60.
Henri Frei, Saussure contre Saussure?, Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure 9, 1950, p. 7–29.
C.f. A Reichling: “Speech is essentially a co-operative, instrumental act: language must be a co-operative tool or… it is not!” ( De Taal, Haar Wetten en Haar Wezen..ENSIE II, 1947, p. 37 ).
See for further details also: Miss Eli Fischer-Jorgensen, Danish Linguistic Activity 1940–48, Lingua II, 1, p. 95–109. (1949).
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Cf. also Wells: “(RS) is neither designed nor suited for… (the) purpose… to be used as an introduction to Hjelmslev’s writings” (Review Recherches Structurales, Language 1951, 27, p. 554).
J. R. Firth, The Semantics of Linguistic Science. Lingua I, 4, p. 394. See, however, Einar Haugen’s Review of the Prolegomena for another opinion. (I JAL 20, no. 3, 1954, p. 251 ).
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Siertsema, B. (1965). Introduction. In: A Study of Glossematics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8796-1_1
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