Features a graphic image of de Saussure's 1915 dualistic model of the concept and acoustic image.

Brief essay describes the wide-ranging significance of Saussure's theory of language as a set of symbols.

Explores the terms synchronic and diachronic in Saussurean linguistics. Also details binary opposition and its use in deconstruction.

Read a bio of this Swiss linguist, famous for his book "Memoir on the Original Vowel System in the Indo-European Languages."