FUNDAMENTALS OF SAUSSURIAN STRUCTURALISM
FUNDAMENTALS OF SAUSSURIAN STRUCTURALISM

Summary/Abstract: Ferdinand de Saussure did not intend to focus on a linguistic or communicational model, but his pioneering studies in linguistics outlined a ‘structural’ model, that highlighted the relationship between elements of communication around the nucleus message-meaning. The Swiss linguist abandoned the practice of studying the origin of languages and tried to describe the ‘structure’ of language. With his positioning, Saussure founded a new way to approach linguistics, anthropology, communication, psychology et al., namely structuralism, which aimed at studying the organized wholes. The real development of structuralism occurred after the death of Ferdinand de Saussure, even if the groundwork in structural approaches remained, for all structuralist researchers, Cours de linguistique générale.

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