Geneva School (Linguistics)
The Geneva School is a direction of structuralism in linguistics. It consisted in particular of students and successors of Ferdinand de Saussure . The circle of linguists, initially also called Cercle F. de Saussure and since 1941 CFS , tried to clarify the terms used by Saussure.
Representatives are u. a. his successors in office Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye , who published Saussures Cours de linguistique générale posthumously , as well as Karcevski and Frei .
The Geneva School emphasizes the following aspects: According to Bally's theory of updating, speaking ( parole ) is seen as the transfer of virtual terms into real expressions through updating. Emphasizes Bally's views on the syntagm and theory of functional transposition (changing grammatical function while maintaining lexical meaning).
A “real development” of structuralism is said not to have taken place in the Geneva school.
literature
- Homberger, specialist dictionary for linguistics (2000) / structuralism
- Lewandowski, Linguistic Dictionary 1 / Geneva School, 4th edition (1984)
- Ulrich, Winfried, Basic Linguistic Terms / Geneva School, 5th ed. (2002)
Web links
- Young grammarians ( University of Potsdam ) (also in detail about the Geneva School) (as of 1998)