Course in General Linguistics [SEP] editor
Course in General Linguistics
Course in General Linguistics () is a book compiled by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye from notes on lectures given by Ferdinand de Saussure at the University of Geneva between 1906 and 1911. It was published in 1916, after Saussure's death, and is generally regarded as the starting point of structural linguistics, an approach to linguistics that flourished in Europe and the United States in the first half of the 20th century. One of Saussure's translators, Roy Harris, summarized Saussure's contribution to linguistics and
Dandy", "The Myth of the Modern", "The Absent Father", and "Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Repressed". He is co-editor, with Haun Saussy, of Ferdinand de Saussure's "Course in General Linguistics", and co-editor, with Walter Kendrick, of "Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey, 1924–25". He is also editor of "Freud: A Collection of Critical Essays". He received his B.A., M. Phil,