Talk:Course in General Linguistics

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the comparison between differance and blackadder's joke is superflous. that is not what saussure meant at all

[edit] Freud Maps Wittgenstein

signifier/signified ~ latent/manifest dream content - please clarify. Can't see it myself. Also there should be a serious attempt to incorporate a critical viewpoint on his theory of meaning. Are signifiers like squares of a map? An arbitrary grid (defined by differences) with correspondences to arbitrarily areas of depicted land (which is a representation of real land)? Map ref square E5 (which does not actually exist on the earth) refers to a part of the earth. E5 means nothing apart from being a meeting of square (signifier) and area of map(signified) i.e. is a sign. But Saussure suggests the map is incoherent until there is a grid. Is that true? And do languages/societies differ in their grids and maps? Is the map a representation of 'real' land only or does it picture 'social structures' too? And mental structures? And what about a Wittgensteinian criticism? Perhaps language is several maps of different sorts taken to be one.... Etc Pliny 12:25, 16 July 2006 (UTC)