Here I am sharing my presentation of paper no -7 Literary theory and criticism western- 2. It is part of my academic activity. It is summited to Dr. Dilip Barad Department of English MKBU.

1. FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE’S
CONTRIBUTION ON LINGUISTIC
Name: Raval Mital M.
Roll no: 19
Bach Year: 2016 – 2018
M.A. Sem: 2
Email id: ravalmital5292@gmail.com
Enrollment No: 2069108420170026
Paper name: Literary theory and criticism - 2
PresentationTopic: Ferdinand De Saussure’s contribution
on Linguistic
• Submited to: Dr. Dilip Barad
Smt.S.B.Gardi
Department of English
M.K.Bhavnagar University

2. About Ferdinand De Saussure
 He was born in 26 November 1857
and died in 22 February 1913.
 He was Swiss linguist and
semiotician.
 His ideas laid a foundation for
many Significant Developments
both in linguistics and semiology in
the 20th century.
 He is known as a father of modern
linguistic.

3. Course in General linguistic
 It is a book completed by Charles
Bally and Albert from notes on
lecture given by Ferdinand De
Saussure at university of Geneva
between 1906 and 1911.
 It is published in 1916 after
Saussure’s death.
 it is generally regarded as the
starting point of structural
linguistics.

4. Three semiology
Langage
paroleLangue

5. The idea of Langage, Langue and
Parole
Saussure distinguishes between Language (Langue)
and speech (Langage).
 Langue is a well defined homogenous object. It is the
heterogeneous mass of speech facts.
 Langage has heterogeneous and it has many side. It
belong to both individual and society.
Langue is a self contained, whole and principle of
classification. And also it is social.
 while parole is heterogeneous and individual
speaking.

6. The sign
 Word has meaning of layers and it has sign,
signifier and signified.
 The sign is the whole that results from the
association of the signifier with the signified.
 The relationship between the signifier and
signified is referred to as signification.
 A sign is a recognizable combination of a
signifier with a particular signified.
For example,
The word cow

7. Three assumption:
Arbitrary
ConventionalRelational

8. Synchronic Linguistics and
Diachronic Linguistics
Synchronic Linguistics Diachronic Linguistics
 Confines to the study of how a
language is spoken by a
specified speech community at
a particular point of time.
 For example:
Chair
 Diachronic linguistic is the
kind in which we study the
historical development of
language through different
period of time.
 For example:
Vulgar

9. Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic
 Syntagmatic and paradigmatic control how sign
relate to each other.
 Syntagmatic relationship is when signs occur in
sequence and operate together to form
meaning.
 Paradigmatic relationship is where an individual
signs can be replaced by one another.

10. Structural Linguistics
 It is an approach to linguistics originating from the
work of Swiss linguist Saussure.
 It is part of the overall approach of structuralism.
Structural linguistic involves collecting a corpus of
utterances and then attempting to classify all of
the element of the corpus at their different
linguistic level.

11. Drishyam Movie

12. Apply structural linguistic
in Drishyam movie.
 In the movie three language is used,
English
Hindi
Marathi
 In movie sign is the visual memories,
 Signifier is the knowledge he got,
 The way he used that knowledge is signified.

13. Work sited:
Wikipedia
dilipbarad.bolgspot.in