著者

北原 美紗子 キタハラ ミサコ Misako Kitahara

雑誌

清泉女子大学紀要

巻号頁・発行日

vol.51, pp.17-34, 2003-12-25

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Saussure was a pioneer who ventured to directly answer the question: 'What is language?' He established a linguistic theory of his own based entirely on sounds against all the foregoing theories based on writing systems. It was Motoki Tokieda who questioned the apparent infallibility of Saussure's theory of langue. The paper proposes a comparative study of the above-mentioned books by two linguistic theorists with a view to tracing the steps Tokieda took to develop his arguments against Saussure's sound-oriented theory.