Saussure originated the teaching behind the Cours but did not write the published book. Bally and Sechehaye assembled it with Riedlinger’s collaboration. Recognizing this editorial history preserves the model’s intellectual lineage while avoiding attribution of every canonical formulation to a manuscript by Saussure.
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- FromSaussure’s Dyadic Model of the Sign (model)
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- DomainMeaning & Clarity
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Editorial orientation · Entry type
Related entry
Related entries name an idea, effect or practice that belongs to a model or tool of the series. They are not models or tools themselves and are not counted as such; each one leads to the model or tool it comes from, and to its Executive Insight Brief.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.