Poll: No text is free of other texts.- Ferdinand de Saussure
No text is free of other texts.- Ferdinand de Saussure |
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Votes: 339
Comments: 11
Added: September 2003
Comments:
| Willbut - 5th September 2003 17:55 |
| Language cannot exist in a vacuum, so I think he's right. |
| Casiopea - 26th September 2003 17:35 |
| I believe Saussure was advocating that there are no novel ideas in the world; That is, a new idea is not only based within a old idea, and so on, but that even the language used to communicate new ideas is 'not free'. |
| tdol - 6th November 2003 23:42 |
| As language is a continuum, there are always going to be connections, aren't there? |
| Joan - 24th November 2003 23:25 |
| So nothing can be truly revolutionary? |
| italianbrother - 26th December 2003 02:00 |
| As pessimistic as it may sound, we are living in a plagiarised world. |
| italianbrother - 26th December 2003 02:09 |
| "So nothing can be truly revolutionary?" It of curse can be, but it is so easy to follow, to be conformist, rather than create etc… etc… it is the true anti-conformist that we need. |
| JT - 15th January 2004 01:59 |
| Isn't the revolutionary, by definition, reacting against something. Therefore, the revolutionary text, while advocating a break with the past, is far from free of it. |
| said madhoun - 17th October 2004 14:33 |
| That's fantastic |
| santhosh - 23rd August 2007 06:54 |
| Thoughts of each man have some sort of link to that of others. One cannot escape from this phenomenon when one express any thing. |
| Sena Jonathan - 24th May 2009 08:06 |
| language forms a continuum, so that there is a sequence of relatedness all through texts, it's why i agree with Saussure. |
| Ben Curtis - 3rd November 2009 18:04 |
| Well, I don't know whether I disagree or not, as I haven't a bloody clue what he's saying (or even what he's trying to say). |
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