[b]Ferdinand de Saussure
Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.[/b]
But then there’s the part about which comes first. About which counts more.
Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.
Let’s explain the reason.
Psychologically our thought—apart from its expression in words—is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.
Let’s explain the reason.
Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.
More or less clever.
In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.
Excluding the masses of course.
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
You know the ones.