Ferdinand de Saussure, l’incompris

Résumé

Since the publication of the posthumous book Courses in General Linguistics (CLG) by his three disciples, Bally, Sechehaye and Riedlinger, linguistic literature has continued to reread the work, to criticize it, to annotate it, to comment on it in order to identify the main key concepts, often linked to a binary structure (signifier/signified; language/speech; synchrony/ diachrony; etc).
Saussure's work has inspired psychoanalysts like Freud and Lacan, anthropologists
like Lévi Strauss, semioticians like Greimas, Eco and Barthes, linguists like
Benveniste, Bouquet, Rastier and finally Arrivé who devoted a large part of his life
to the work of this linguist.
Our communication will focus on the readings and criticisms of Saussure's work,
from the appearance of the founding book of structuralism, to recently discovered
works such as De l'essence double du langage which inspired the French cognitivist
semantician Rastier.
We will take up the highlights of the work of linguists who revisit the work of this
great linguist to give it the place it deserves within the sciences of language.