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Structuralism -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | Although Saussure was, like his contemporaries, interested in (The study of linguistic change) historical linguistics, in the Course he developed a more general theory of (additional info and facts about semiology) semiology. |
 | | This approach focused on examining how the elements of language related to each other in the present ('synchronically' rather than 'diachronically'). |
 | | He thus focused not on the use of language (parole, or talk) but the underlying system of language (langue) of which any particular utterance was an expression. |
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