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Saussure's definition of language
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Most studies of language take a diachronic approach that emphasised, for instance, a "cause/effect" or sequential view of meaning and communication. Saussure used a synchronic method of study that looked at simultaneous relationships. One result of the synchronic method was Saussure's insistence on the double nature of language and linguistic elements.
Saussure insisted on the systematic nature of language; "Language is a structure, a functioning whole in which the different parts are determine...
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