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Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure 74 (2021)

Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure. Volume 74 (2021), édité par Pierre-Yves TESTENOIRE, Genève, Librairie Droz, 2022, 328 pages, ISSN : 0068-516X, ISBN-13 : 978-2-600-06414-9, € 60,00 / CHF 61.50
Date de première publication : 05 Décembre 2022
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Ce numéro en version numérique : https://revues.droz.org/index.php/CFS/issue/view/CFS74


Table des matièresCahiers Ferdinand de Saussure (Cover)

I Éditorial

À nos lecteurs (P.-Y. TESTENOIRE)

II Articles

Grazia BASILE, Le phénomène de la synonymie entre système linguistique et infinité. Saussure et Bally en comparaison
Felice CIMATTI, Saussure on the odd and unconscious nature of language
Rossana DE ANGELIS, La sémiologie à l’école de Genève
Emanuele FADDA, La syntaxe sémiologique de L. J. Prieto: une théorie de la connaissance des objects composés
Anne-Gaëlle TOUTAIN, La place de la syntaxe dans l’oeuvre de linguistique générale de Ferdinand de Saussure
Klaas WILLEMS, Saussure on synonymy

III Résumés de thèses

Aline VARGAS STAWINSKI, À l’écoute de la langue-parole: considérations à partir de la théorie saussurienne

IV Documents

Pierre-Yves TESTENOIRE et Simon WILLEMIN, Ferdinand de Saussure dans les archives de Jean Starobinski
Pierre-Yves TESTENOIRE, Raymond Queneau. Saussure, hétéroclite ?
Lucia AMARA, La traduction italienne des Mots sous les mots. Une version augmentée
Pierre-Yves TESTENOIRE et Simon WILLEMIN, Bibliographie de Jean Starobinski sur les anagrammes de Saussure

V In Memoriam

E. F. K. Koerner (1939-2022) (John E. Joseph)

VI Lectures critiques

La Grande Grammaire du français, sous la direction d’Anne Abeillé & Danièle Godard, en collaboration avec Annie Delaveau & Antoine Gautier, 2 tomes, Arles, Actes Sud, 2021, par Alain BERRENDONNER
La sémantique au pluriel. Théories et méthodes, A. Biglari, D. Ducard (éd.), Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2022, par Michele PRANDI

VII Comptes rendus

Claudia MEJÍA QUIJANO, El primer curso. Lingüística general de Ferdinand de Saussure, Louis Caille y Albert Riedlinger, edición bilingüe de Claudia Mejía Quijano, Daniel Jaramillo Giraldo y Alexander Pérez Zapata, Medellín, Editorial Semsa, 2019 (E. Sofía)
François VINCENT, Ferdinand de Saussure : le premier cours de linguistique générale. La trilogie achevée, Deauville, Éditions Champs-Élysées, 2020 (P.-Y. Testenoire)
Gilles SIOUFFI, Le sentiment linguistique chez Saussure, Lyon, ENS Éditions, 2021 (G. Basile)
Vladimir do NASCIMENTO FLORES, Saussure e a tradução, Brasília, Editora UnB, 2021 (G. M. Monteiro de Carvalho et M. de Fátima Vilar de Melo)
Roman JAKOBSON, Lo Sviluppo della semiotica e altri saggi, saggio introduttivo di Umberto Eco, saggio conclusivo di Nunzio La Fauci, traduzioni di Andrea La Porta, Emilio Picco e Ugo Volli, Bompiani, Campo aperto, 2020 (M.-J. Beguelin)
Cosimo CAPUTO, Basi linguistiche della semiotica: Teoria e storia Milano – Udine, Mimesis, 2021/La scienza doppia del linguaggio. Dopo Chomsky, Saussure e Hjelmslev, Roma, Carocci, 2019 (M. Servilio)
Michel BOSSÉ, Le legs de F. de Saussure : tremplin ou boulet ? Analyse épistémologique des propositions linguistiques de Lev S. Vygotski, Jean Piaget et Jean-Pierre Changeux, Saint Lambert (Québec), Éditions Cursus universitaire, 2019 (J.-P. Bronckart)
Maurice MERLEAU-PONTY, Le problème de la parole : Cours au Collège de France, Notes, 1953-1954, texte établi par Lovisa Andén, Franck Robert et Emmanuel de Saint Aubert, avant-propos de Lovisa Andén, postface de Franck Robert, Genève, MētisPresses, 2020 (J. E. Joseph)
Tomáš KOBLÍŽEK, La conscience interne de la langue. Essai phénoménologique, avec une préface de Claude Imbert, Limoges, Lambert-Lucas (coll. « Philosophie et langage »), 2021 (S. Badir)

VIII Chroniques du Cercle

Chronique du Cercle pour les années 2021-2022


Résumés

Grazia BASILE (Université de Salerne) Le phénomène de la synonymie entre système linguistique et infinité. Saussure et Bally en comparaison
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to describe the phenomenon of synonymy as understood by Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Bally. As regards Saussure we find semiotically relevant suggestions both in the Cours de linguistique générale and, more strongly, in the Item Notes. By pointing out some of the content differences between these two attempts at writing, the Écrits de linguistique générale. In particular, in De l’essence double du langage (essay contained in Écrits) the notion of synonymy is correlated both to that of “negative synonymy”, in reference to the oppositional and negative character of linguistic elements within a linguistic system, and to that of “infinite synonymy”, in reference to the incalculable domain of possible senses with which we can reformulate the meaning of a word according to the contexts, in the various jeux de signes (sign manipulations) in which speakers are involved. The infinite synonymy and the theoretical necessity of contextual reference, together with the reference to the jeux de signes, are also present in Charles Bally’s subsequent reflections, in particular in his notion of “expressive molecule” as a system of facts of expression grouped coherently around a given idea. Among these facts of expression there are also synonymic expressions that play an important role in the establishment of the science of expression, and more precisely of stylistics.
Keywords: Synonymy, Homonymy, Lexicon, Associative relationships, Stylistics.
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Felice CIMATTI (Università della Calabria), Saussure on the odd and unconscious nature of language
Abstract: As Starobinski explicitly showed, Ferdinand de Saussure discovered that language has its own semantic power which largely exceeds those of speakers; that is, Saussure discovered that language exists as an (almost) autonomous entity. According to this discovery language is not mainly a means of communication at the service of human beings, it is quite the contrary: human communication is a sort of collateral effect of language, because language does not exist only with the aim of allowing humans to communicate. Saussure discovered the existence of a somewhat mysterious semiotic life under the surface of natural languages, a “life” that is completely independent in respect to conscious human communicative needs. The psychoanalytical consequences of such a discovery will be explored through the Lacanian notion of lalangue
Keywords: Starobinski, anagrams, Chomsky, Lacan, lalangue.
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Rossana DE ANGELIS (Université Paris Est Créteil) La sémiologie à l’école de Genève
Abstract: The term semiology is unanimously attributed to Ferdinand de Saussure. Conceived as an autonomous field of research, semiology is presented as deriving directly from his lectures. Nevertheless, it is not seen as a field of research which has led to the creation of a real school (such as the School of Paris), nor to the instituting of a specific object of analysis. However, a semiological “legacy” stemming from Saussure’s proposals has consolidated. Protagonists of this legacy are Éric Buyssens, Luís J. Prieto, Georges Mounin, and Jeanne Martinet. To understand how their different semiological projects relate to one another, we must go back to the sources. That the definition of “semiology” presented in the Cours de linguistique générale developed across different phases of Saussure’s thought can be seen in the various senses in which it is used. This article examines the meanings which “semiology” has for Saussure and for those scholars who subsequently took it up.
Keywords: Semiology, Geneva School, Buyssens, Prieto, Mounin, Martinet.
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Emanuele FADDA (Università della Calabria) La syntaxe sémiologique de L. J. Prieto: une théorie de la connaissance des objects composés
Abstract: The article revisits a proposal by Luís J. Prieto for the (re)definition of syntax, dated 1988-1989. Prieto’s idea deserves to be reclaimed for multiple reasons: the resemblance of what he calls “phonological syntax” with what is called today “prosodic phonology”; the way in which it helps to understand the Hjelmslevian principle of biplanarity (heteroplane function); and, most of all, its semiotic value, which goes beyond the strictly linguistic level and makes it a fundamental notion for a semiotic theory of knowledge.
Keywords: L. J. Prieto, Syntax, Semiotics, Prosodical Phonology, Theory of Knowledge.
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Anne-Gaëlle TOUTAIN (Université de Berne) La place de la syntaxe dans l’oeuvre de linguistique générale de Ferdinand de Saussure
Abstract: This article attempts to determine the implications for syntax of the Saussurean definition of langue as a functioning. The deconstruction of the traditional representation of syntax is coupled with a redefinition of syntax within the framework of syntagmatic/paradigmatic and concrete/abstract entities distinctions. Syntax is elaborated as an “external determinant”, and as such it occupies a central place in Saussurean theorization of langue. This is both a point of convergence and a point of radical divergence with Chomskyan theory, a divergence which this article aims to highlight in order to propose, a bit speculatively, another answer to the question of the origin of language.
Keywords: value, system, functioning, Chomsky, psychoanalysis, phylogeny.
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Klaas WILLEMS (Ghent University) Saussure on synonymy
Abstract: Saussure’s observations on synonymie in De la double essence du langage (Saussure 2011) cast an interesting light on his general account of linguistic meaning. Synonymie covers three distinct concepts for Saussure: 1) semantic similarity of words in a particular language, based on the contrasts between (and mutual demarcation of) meanings in the lexicon, 2) semantic identity of different words in a particular language, by definition impossible in natural language, and 3) multifunctionality of a word in a particular language, to be understood in terms of a hierarchical relationship between a word’s encoded language-particular meaning and its instances of use (including figurative uses). As well as tracing the connections between these three concepts, this article calls attention to the internal consistency of Saussure’s explanations and underscores their importance for a coherent and unified approach to the linguistic sign in accordance with Saussure’s basic theoretical assumptions.
Keywords: synonymy, polysemy, multifunctionality, metaphor (figurative language), meaning, “signifié” (signified).
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Aline VARGAS STAWINSKI (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul) À l’écoute de la langue-parole: considérations à partir de la théorie saussurienne
Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to outline a conception of listening based on Saussurean linguistics. We take the role attributed to the ear and the speaker into account, in conjunction with the notions of langue and parole. To such an extent, we organize this thesis into three parts. Each one focuses on a different topic – although all of them are correlated: the listener, the speaker, and the listening. Under the effect of Saussure’s approach on langue, we conclude that listening operates as a linguistic interpretation function capable of bringing the langue-parole dichotomy into question.
Keywords: Listening, Speaking subject, Ear, Listener.
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Saussure: manuscritos, aulas e publicações – org. E. Silveira, S.M. Henriques

Saussure: manuscritos, aulas e publicações, org. Eliane Silveira e Stefania Montes Henriques. Uberlândia, Editora da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (Linguística in Focus, 14), 2022, 325 p., ISBN 978-65-5824-024-2
DOI : doi.org/10.14393/978–65-5824-024-2
Volume entièrement disponible en ligne à cette adresse.

A publicação de um livro sobre Ferdinand de Saussure com o subtítulo « manuscritos, aulas e publicações » se justifica no sentido de apresentar ao leitor a produtividade de cada um desses diferentes espaços nos quais a produção do linguista foi depositada e reverbera em tantas áreas até hoje. Essa diversidade de suportes materiais nos quais se encontram as elaborações do linguista impõe aos pesquisadores uma via com vários caminhos: pode-se partir da obra responsável pela fundação da Linguística Moderna, como também de seus manuscritos, das anotações de seus alunos, ou ainda se deter em suas publicações.
O que ocorre com o arcabouço teórico saussuriano é que os caminhos escolhidos não se excluem, mas sim se relacionam, muitas vezes se sobrepõem, mostrando-nos uma inter-relação ainda mais profícua entre essas diferentes fontes da produção do genebrino. O resultado dessa diversidade, ao contrário do que se poderia pensar, contribui para uma discussão tanto mais aprofundada quanto complexa da herança intelectual do fundador da linguística moderna.
Mas, para além de mostrar toda a herança que Saussure nos deixou, este livro também pretende evidenciar a amplitude e fecundidade de suas elaborações. Conceitos, aforismas e axiomas que, por vezes, passam despercebidos entre os pesquisadores das ciências da linguagem ainda hoje são dignos de investigação justamente por sua importância e por levantar questões que ainda nos incomodam, sejamos linguistas ou simplesmente falantes

Extrait de l’Introduction par Eliane Silveira et Stefania Montes Henriques (p. 7).

Contributions de : Valdir do Nascimento Flores, Allana Cristina Moreira Marques, Luiza Milano, Thayanne Raísa Silva e Lima, Aline Stawinski, Maria Fausta Pereira de Castro, Paulo Henrique do Espírito Santo Nestor, Núbia Rabelo Bakker Faria, Pierre-Yves Testenoire, Estanislao Sofía, Bruno Turra, Stefania Montes Henriques, Maria Francisca Lier-De Vitto, Mariana Trenche de Oliveira, Brenda Sousa, Micaela Pafume Coelho, Eliane Silveira, André Santos, Vítor Jochims Schneider, Fernando Silva e Silva.

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The Oxford History of Phonology – ed. B. Elan Dresher, Harry van der Hulst

The Oxford History of Phonology, edited by B. Elan Dresher and Harry van der Hulst. Oxford, Oxford University Press (Oxford Linguistics), 2002, 880 p. ISBN 9780198796800, $ 165
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796800.001.0001
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Notice de l’Éditeur, avec table des matières

This volume is the first to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive history of phonology from the earliest known examples of phonological thinking, through the rise of phonology as a field in the twentieth century, and up to the most recent advances. The volume is divided into five parts. Part I offers an account of writing systems along with chapters exploring the great ancient and medieval intellectual traditions of phonological thought that form the foundation of later thinking and continue to enrich phonological theory. Chapters in Part II describe the important schools and individuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who shaped phonology as an organized scientific field. Part III examines mid-twentieth century developments in phonology in the Soviet Union, Northern and Western Europe, and North America; it continues with precursors to generative grammar, and culminates in a chapter on Chomsky and Halle’s The Sound Pattern of English (SPE). Part IV then shows how phonological theorists responded to SPE with respect to derivations, representations, and phonology-morphology interaction. Theories discussed include Dependency Phonology, Government Phonology, Constraint-and-Repair theories, and Optimality Theory. The part ends with a chapter on the study of variation. Finally, chapters in Part V look at new methods and approaches, covering phonetic explanation, corpora and phonological analysis, probabilistic phonology, computational modelling, models of phonological learning, and the evolution of phonology. This in-depth exploration of the history of phonology provides new perspectives on where phonology has been and sheds light on where it could go next.

Featuring «Saussure and structural phonology» by John E. Joseph (p. 203-220) and «Pāṇini» by Paul Kiparsky (p. 38-63).

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Hjelmslev – Essais et communications sur le langage

Louis Hjelmslev, Essais et communications sur le langage, éd. par Lorenzo Cigana. Genève/Lausanne, sdvig press (Figures of Structuralism, 2), 2022, 422 p. ISBN 9782970082972
Volume entièrement disponible en ligne sur le site de l’Éditeur.

La première partie recueille les interventions et les discussions dans lesquelles Hjelmslev figure comme rapporteur lors de séances du Cercle linguistique de Copenhague, ou lors d’autres colloques, et dont les minutes sont éparpillées dans différents Bulletins et Acta. On y trouvera aussi la reproduction des débats qui ont suivi les communications ayant été publiées par la suite sous forme d’articles. Il nous semblait que reproduire ce genre de questionnement des auditeurs, ainsi que les réponses et les remarques de Hjelmslev, ajoutait quelque chose à l’intelligibilité de ses interventions : cela enrichit le débat, autant au niveau conceptuel que du point de vue du style rhétorique.
Par ailleurs, la publication des remarques et des interventions au débat a demandé un remaniement général de ces contributions, pour en faciliter la lisibilité et l’appréhension. Il a notamment fallu, au-delà des choix conceptuels et terminologiques indispensables à la traduction, et de la correction de certaines coquilles, étoffer le style télégraphique de certaines communications afin d’arriver à une meilleure fluidité, en « encatalysant » un contenu phraséologique correspondant à la nature de ces dernières. Et comme il s’agissait de recréer la polyphonie des discussions qui s’étaient ensuivies, on a pensé qu’il était utile d’insérer également, à côté des remarques de Hjelmslev, les observations des autres intervenants. Il a donc fallu mentionner le nom du locuteur, là où la distinction entre l’intervenant et le(s) sujet(s) mentionné(s) dans le débat n’était pas a priori évidente, en inscrivant le nom de chaque intervenant entre crochets. On a également recouru à ceux-ci au cours de l’anthologie pour signaler nos interventions. Signalons enfin que l’ordre chronologique adopté dans cette partie respecte les dates des séances et des congrès dans lesquels ces communications ont été présentées, et non celle des ouvrages où elles ont paru.
La deuxième partie est constituée de contributions plus longues, qu’on peut légitimement qualifier d’articles. Certaines parties de ce contingent ont déjà été publiées en italien ou en anglais : la traduction intégrale en français en a été réalisée ici, afin d’obtenir une uniformité générale. D’autres sont parues en français, mais jamais dans un recueil ; d’autres encore n’ont été publiés jusqu’ici qu’en danois ou en allemand.

Extrait de l’introduction de Lorenzo Cigana

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La linguistique et ses formes historiques d’organisation et de production – éd. Didier Samain, Pierre-Yves Testenoire

La linguistique et ses formes historiques d’organisation et de production, sous la direction de Didier Samain et Pierre-Yves Testenoire. Paris, SHESL (HEL Livres, 1) 2022, 336 p. ISBN 979-10-91587-16-7
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6675029
Volume entièrement disponible en ligne sur le site de l’Éditeur.

Parmi les résultats documentaires et théoriques apportés par ces
contributions, il en est un, moins attendu et plus discret que d’autres.
Il a fait apparaître la diversité des formes de réflexivité et d’auto-
désignation. De manière générale, nous avons tendance à nous méfier
des phénomènes d’auto-référence lorsqu’il s’agit des organisations.
Non sans quelque raison. Les petites et grandes manœuvres des
individus et des acteurs, les réécritures plus ou moins intéressées du
passé, tous ces biais sont légion. Figures et disciplines ne naissent pas
du cerveau de Zeus, mais de la forge d’Héphaïstos. Il n’empêche. On
ne peut s’empêcher de penser que les métadiscours ne se réduisent
pas pour autant aux mécanismes qui les ont fait naître, et qui parfois
nous échappent. À la lecture des pages qui vont suivre, la nécessité
de les envisager sérieusement devient évidente. Leur signification
cognitive et anthropologique en histoire des sciences reste toutefois
à préciser.

Extrait de la préface de Didier Samain

 

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With Saussure, beyond Saussure – ed. by Marina De Palo, Stefano Gensini

With Saussure, beyond Saussure. Between linguistics and philosophy of language, ed. by Marina De Palo, Stefano Gensini. Münster, Nodus Publikationen, 2022, 170 p., ISBN 978-3-89323-027-3, € 43
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Préface et table des matières

The centenary of the publication of CLG, which was celebrated in 2016, represented an important occasion for reviewing the dispersion and the influence of Saussurean thought in twentieth-century European linguistics and philosophy. Many scientific events in Geneva, Paris and Rome celebrated this anniversary, once again concentrating critical and theoretical reflection on this work which changed the orientation, not only of modern linguistics in the 1900s, but also of the whole gamut of human sciences, becoming the point of reference for struc-turalism and post-structuralism. The Laboratory of the History of Linguistic Ideas of the Department of Philosophy in the Sapienza University of Rome (Labsil) also contributed to organising a convention in Rome, in June of 2016, on the Roman school and Saussure’s reception (see Marina De Palo, Stefano Gensini (eds.), Saussure e la Scuola linguistica romana. Da Antonino Pagliaro a Tullio De Mauro. Roma: Carocci 2018) following dialogue between the Roman school and the Genevan school — two schools which, through the inter-pretative and philological work of Gödel and Engler on the Genevan side, and De Mauro on the Roman side, explored the complex and uncertain relationship which the CLG has with its handwritten sources. The present volume, setting out from the revival of the debate surrounding the Cours de linguistique générale (1916, 19222), intends to offer reconsideration and rereadings of certain fundamental points in the light of the results of recent studies and of the knowledge acquired from the plurality of linguistic-philosophical traditions within which this work was received in the 1900s […].
In this varied tableau of essays, interwoven with a dynamic Humboldtian conception of language, the reader will glimpse throughout the golden thread of the speaking subject — a question often placed in the background of traditional structuralist approaches and revived in the present-day debate, above all in the field of the cognitive sciences.

Extrait de la préface des éditeurs

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