de Saussure, Ferdinand (1983) Course in General Linguistics Chicago: Open Court. (See questions on last sheet.)

Questions:

1. What is language in de Saussure’s approach? 2. What is speech (in contrast to language)? 3. How does de Saussure see variation (such as dialects)? 4. What is the nature of the relationship between linguistic signs and concepts? 5. Is phonetics a part of linguistics? Explain.