Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure, volume 69 (2016), édité par Daniele GAMBARARA. Genève, Librairie Droz, 2017, 340 pages, ISSN : 0068-516X, ISBN-13 : 978-2-600-04760-9, € 40,00
Date de première publication : 2017
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I – LE COURS DE LINGUISTIQUE GÉNÉRALE 1916-2016
Daniele Gambarara (Università della Calabria; daniele.gambarara@gmail.com)
PRÉSENTATION (pp. 5-7)
Estanislao Sofia (KU Leuven; estanislao.sofia@gmail.com)
QUELLE EST LA DATE EXACTE DE PUBLICATION DU CLG ? (pp. 9-16)
Abstract: This article relates the history of the negotiations maintained by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye with Payot Publishing House between December 1915 and May 1916, when the Cours de linguistique générale was published. Along the way, we answer to the question that serves as title of this article: what day, exactly, appeared this book ?
Keywords: Charles Bally; Albert Sechehaye; Payot; Cours de linguistique générale : Publication.
Giuseppe D’Ottavi et Irina Fougeron (ITEM/CNRS; giuseppe.dottavi@ens.fr; i.fougeron@orange.fr)
UNE LETTRE DE SERGE KARCEVSKI DE 1916 (17-27)
Abstract: After a brief reminder of the life and critical fortunes of the Russian linguist Serge Karcevski (1884-1955), the article presents a recently discovered autograph document proving his will to translate into Russian the Cours de linguistique générale de Ferdinand de Saussure. While Karcevski’s plan, which finally did not succeed, was already known by indirect sources, the manuscript shows that his intentions were very soon manifested, less than a week after the release date of the book. This way, this contribution aims at shedding light on the very first steps of the reception of the Cours.
Keywords: Serge Karcevski; Manuscript; Cours de linguistique générale:Translation in Russian; Cours de linguistique générale: Reception.
Estanislao Sofia et Pierre Swiggers (KU Leuven; estanislao.sofia@gmail.com; pierre.swiggers@kuleuven.be)
LE CLG A TRAVERS LE PRISME DE SES (PREMIÈRES) RÉCEPTIONS (pp. 29-36)
Abstract: This article summarizes the contents of a volume – in preparation – in which the authors have gathered (and, when applicable, translated into French) some 45 reviews of the Cours de linguistique générale published in various scientific journals between 1916 and 1930. As an additional dossier, the volume contains reviews of the critical edition of the CLG by Rudolf Engler (1967-1974) and of the Italian translation, with biographical and exegetical notes, by Tullio De Mauro (1967).
Key words: Cours de linguistique générale: Reception and Reviews; Rudolf Engler ; Tullio De Mauro.
Aya Ono (RMIT University; ono_bun@nifty.com)
« L’INFLUENCE DE SAUSSURE AU JAPON » (1978) PAR HIDEO KOBAYASHI (pp. 37-42)
Abstract: Hideo Kobayashi (1903-1978) played a major role in introducing Saussure’s theories to Japan. He published the very first translation of Cours de linguistique générale in 1928 and stood as an eminent expositor of Saussure’s theories until the late 1970’s. In this paper, we will attempt to situate Kobayashi’s introduction of Saussure in relation to the historical context of Japanese linguistics and also present a brief biography and an abbreviated bibliography. Following the presentation, we will translate into French and annotate Kobayashi’s essay, “Saussure’s influence in Japan” [日本におけるソシュールの影響] (1978).
Keywords: Hideo Kobayashi; Saussure in Japan; Cours de linguistique générale:translation ; Japanese linguistics.
II – ARTICLES
Giuseppe D’Ottavi (ENS, CNRS/ITEM; giuseppe.dottavi@ens.fr)
MATÉRIAUX POUR L’ÉTUDE DE « DE L’EMPLOI DU GÉNITIF ABSOLU EN SANSCRIT »DE FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE (1881) (pp. 57-84)
Abstract: While the Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indoeuropéennes (1879 [1878]) secured a place for him among the major indo-europeanists of his century, the second and last book published by Ferdinand de Saussure during his lifetime received little attention, and its historical and theoretical contours are still blurry in the current critical literature. The following article aims at gathering data in order to build a framework for further study on the work of Saussure concerning the Sanskrit genitive absolute. The main tenants of the incomplete and unpublished section addressing the origins of this specific Sanskrit syntactic device are also presented.
Keywords: Genitive absolute; Historical syntax; Origin of absolute constructions ; Sanskrit ; Saussure: De l’emploi du génitif absolu en sanscrit.
Claire-Antonella Forel (Université de Genève; claire.forel@unige.ch)
DE L’ÉCOLE (DE GENÈVE) À L’ÉCOLE : QUELLE CONTRIBUTION À L’ENSEIGNEMENT DES LANGUES ? (pp. 85-112)
Abstract: Linguistics has often been used in the context of foreign language teaching. This article aims at presenting how the various members of the so-called Geneva School of linguistics have contributed to the subject. Even though Saussure never really approached the subject, he is often called upon. His successors to the chair of General Linguistics all had something to say on the matter. The article also includes Godel in the discussion.
Keywords: General linguistics, Foreign language Teaching, Saussure, Bally, Sechehaye, Frei, Godel, Palmer, Hornby, Common European Framework of Reference.
Giovanni Manetti (Università degli Studi di Siena; manettig@unisi.it)
SUBJECTIVITÉ, DISCOURS ET LES DEUX NOTIONS D’ÉNONCIATION CHEZ BENVENISTE (pp. 113-130)
Abstract: Through a diachronic reading of the writings of Benveniste contained both in the two volumes of the Problèmes de linguistique générale, and in the handwritten notes of the “Fonds Benveniste”, the paper proposes the hypothesis that in the writings of the French linguist, we can find, even though implicitly, a twofold conception of enunciation, and not a single one: (1) a “strong (or particularizing) conception” which identifies enunciation specifically with the “discourse”, the latter being connected to the structure of the dialogue and having a formal apparatus; (2) a “weak (or generalizing) conception”, according to which the enunciation is considered as a general mechanism of sense production in a semiotic system, which involves the whole language and being not connected to a specific series of linguistic forms.
Keywords: E. Benveniste; discourse; enunciation; linguistic production; subjectivity.
Angela Senis (Université Paris VII ; angela@senis.org)
LA PHONESTHÉSIE DE JOHN RUPERT FIRTH: QUAND LE SON FAIT SENS (pp. 131-154)
Abstract: The problems posed by the concept of the phoneme were at the centre of international debates among linguists in the first half of the 20th century. John Rupert Firth, a key figure in the so-called London school of linguistics, resisted the concept, and aimed to relocate phonological analysis within his phonaesthetic theory, associating meaning with clusters of sounds or letters. This was in line with the practice of 19th and 20th century philologists, and was consistent with Firth’s polysystemic vision of language, grounded in context of situation: the phoneme as a cluster of sounds echoes the collocation at the lexical level, and the colligation at the grammatical level. Although Firth’s approach never received the scientific attention he hoped for, it did not remain completely ignored, and would resurface in later work in corpus studies.
Keywords: J. R. Firth; History of linguistic thought; Meaning; Phoneme; Phonaestheme ; Sound.
Emiliano Sfara (Université Montpellier-3; emiliano.sfara@gmail.com)
APERÇUS SUR LA CONCEPTION DU LANGAGE CHEZ GEORGES CANGUILHEM (pp. 155-166)
Abstract: The published works by Georges Canguilhem, which are mostly focused on philosophy and history of science, contain some traces of a specific conception of language. Some of his unpublished manuscripts and notes are actually treating, with a certain level of detail, the subjects of: a) language as a foundation of thought, and b) Schematism in Kantian terms. This paper, by pointing out the analogies among the above mentioned subjects, some aspects of Lev Vygotsky’s developmental psychology, and a number of recent works on philosophy of language, aims to clarify and define the general elements of a philosophy of language contained in the published and unpublished writings by Georges Canguilhem.
Keywords: Action; Alain (E.-A. Chartier); G. Canguilhem; I. Kant; language; Schematism; thought; L. Vygotsky.
III – RÉSUMÉS DE THÈSES
Giuseppe Cosenza (Université de la Calabre/Université de Genève; cs.giuseppe@gmail.com)
ENTRE TERMINOLOGIE ET LEXIQUE: LES CHEMINS DE LA PENSÉE DE F. DE SAUSSURE (pp. 169-187)
Abstract: The aim of this research is the analysis and the representation of Saussure’s terminology. I adopted three perspectives to investigate this subject. The first one is historical, in which I propose the analysis of Saussure’s terminology in different contexts: 1) Saussure’s terms occurring in scientific dictionaries of linguistics and semiotics; 2) different representations of Saussure’s terminology in different models as indexes and terminologies. This analysis shows many differences within what we generally call terminology in a broad sense, so that it becomes necessary to define and articulate the very notion of “Saussurean terminology”. The second point of view is theoretical and methodological. Above all, I argue that Saussurean terminology is not technically a terminology, because in Saussure’s documents (manuscripts and publications) there are many attempts to adopt some patterns of technical terms, but they never reached the status of a terminology. I collocated all attempts in mid level between word and term, because they are technical terms only in specific contexts of Saussure’s different reflection. I named these attempts terminologically semimanufactured. Whereas the representation of Saussurean terminology is different from normally representation of terminology. Third I create a model for representation itself. First, I distinguish between three different terminological areas: 1) the terms of XIX century linguistic; 2) the terms of other sciences; 3) the Saussure terminologically semi-manufactured. In the last area I make different sections for the different moments of Saussure’s reflection. This complex model allows me to display all terminological attempts made by Saussure and all terminological problems that he experienced in order to resolve a linguistic or semiotic problem.
Keywords: technical term, terminology, linguistic, Saussurean terminology, models of terminology.
Sébastien Moret (Université de Tartu/Université de Lausanne; Sé bastien.Moret@unil.ch)
LES LINGUISTIQUES DE L’EUROPE NOUVELLE (pp. 189-203)
Abstract: This PhD Dissertation in the History of Ideas in Linguistics aims at discussing two questions: 1) What can explain, in two totally different contexts (Europe at the time at the Treaty of Versailles and the Early years of the Soviet Union) the emergence of such radically different ideas about what language is; 2) How is the further disappearance of all attempts to rationalize language in the Soviet Union to be explained. The first part of the dissertation looks at the positions taken by three linguists who worked as consultants for their respective governments: the French A. Meillet, the Serb A. Belič and the Bulgarian J. Ivanov. The second part looks at the evolution that led from wanting to change language to the celebration of nationalism in the USSR.
Keywords: History of linguistic ideas, languages and nations, national languages, A. Meillet, A. Belič, J. Ivanov, J. Stalin.
Créola Thénault (Université Paris X Nanterre; creola.thenault@wanadoo.fr)
LA RENAISSANCE NÉOSAUSSURIENNE DU PARADIGME DIFFÉRENTIEL EN LINGUISTIQUE ET SON ILLUSTRATION NÉGATIVE PAR LA THÉORIE DU PRÉSENT DE L’INDICATIF EN FRANÇAIS (pp. 205-218)
Abstract: The discovery of the manuscript De l’essence double du langage [The double essence of language] (which appeared in the Ecrits de linguistique générale [Writings in General Linguistics] in 2002) gave rise to a renewed interest in Ferdinand de Saussure and, above all, allowed for a revaluation of his scientific project. As part of this movement, a new interpretation of his project has been developed by Simon Bouquet: this involves bringing together the fields of linguistics of both langue and parole within a Galilean epistemology that radicalises the principle of differentiality. The first section of this thesis is dedicated to a critical presentation of Bouquet’s model – known as the linguistique néosaussurienne de l’interprétation. The second section explores the largely understudied nature of the principle of differentiality in the science of language. The way in which grammar books treat the theory of the present indicative in French is examined as a case in point. The conclusion, in the form of an opening, outlines the possibility of a differential grammar which describes, from the perspective of language, the semantic system of the French present tense; as well as the laws of correlation postulated by a neosaussurean linguistics; to give an explanation of the double nature of language which is at once both langue and parole.
Keywords: differentiality; neosaussurean linguistics; semantics; present indicative in French.
IV – DOCUMENTS
Francesca Murano (Università degli Studi di Firenze; francesca.murano@unifi.it)
LES INSCRIPTIONS DE PIERRE-PERTUIS ET DE GEX (CIL XIII 5166 et 11551) DANS LES MANUSCRITS DE SAUSSURE (BGE Ms. fr. 3954 env. 3 et 3956 env. 8) (pp. 221-243)
Abstract: The present paper analyses F. de Saussure’s manuscripts concerning interesting histori(ographi)cal and linguistics remarks on two Latin inscriptions from Geneva area, and places them in the context of Saussure’s scientific interest. The author moves from Saussure’s comment on Pierre-Pertuis text to discuss some linguistic aspects of the inscription, in particular its syntactic order, also in the framework of the formulary of Roman epigraphy.
Keywords: Epigraphy; Geneva History; Latin inscriptions; Saussure’s manuscripts ; T. Mommsen.
Estanislao Sofia (KU Leuven; estanislao.sofia@gmail.com)
CENT ANS DE PHILOLOGIE SAUSSURIENNE II. COMPLÉMENT À LA CORRESPONDANCE ENTRE CHARLES BALLY ET ALBERT SECHEHAYE AU COURS DE L’ÉLABORATION DU COURS DE LINGUISTIQUE GENERALE (1913) (pp. 221-243)
Abstract: Some years ago, I published in these Cahiers (cf. Sofia 2013) a fragment of the correspondence maintained by Albert Sechehaye and Charles Bally between September and December 1913, when the two linguists were at the beginning of the editing work that led to the publication of the Cours de linguistique générale (Saussure 1916). This correspondence was fragmentary: it contained only four letters from Sechehaye to Bally, and Bally’s response to one of them. This article supplements the correspondence published in 2013, thanks to the discovery of two postcards from Ch. Bally to A. Sechehaye which remained unknown until today.
Keywords: Charles Bally; Albert Sechehaye; Correspondance; Cours de Linguistique générale: editing work.
V – DÉDICACE DE L’AUDITORIUM F. DE SAUSSURE (Geneve, 21 janvier 2016)
Allocution de Nicolas Zufferey (pp. 255-257)
Allocution de Tullio De Mauro (pp. 259-260)
Allocution de Daniele Gambarara (pp. 261-263)
Allocution de Louis de Saussure (pp. 265-270)
VI – IN MEMORIAM
Jean Yves Tilliette (Université de Genève; jean-yves.tilliette@unige.ch)
MICHEL BURGER (1926-2016) (pp. 273-276)
Emanuele Fadda, Daniele Gambarara (Università della Calabria; daniele.gambarara@gmail.com, lelefadda@gmail.com)
UMBERTO ECO (1932-2016) (pp. 277-281)
Giuseppe D’Ottavi (ENS, CNRS/ITEM; giuseppe.dottavi@ens.fr)
ANNA MORPURGO DAVIES (1937-2014) (pp. 283-287)
VII – COMPTES RENDUS ET ANNONCES DE COLLOQUES
« Jacques Coursil, Valeurs pures. Le paradigme sémiotique de Ferdinand de Saussure, Limoges, Lambert-Lucas, 2015, 245 p. – ISBN 978-2-35935-113-2. »,par Jean Giot (pp. 291-296)
« Anamaria Curea, Entre expression et expressivité : l’école linguistique de Genève de 1900 à 1940 : Charles Bally, Albert Sechehaye, Henri Frei. Lyon, ENS Editions, coll. « Langages », 2015, 378 p., ISBN : 978-2-84788-689-4. », par Claire-Antonella Forel (pp. 297-301)
« Emanuele Fadda, Peirce, Roma, Carocci (« Pensatori » 33), 2013, 246 p. », par Sémir Badir (pp. 303-305)
« Groupe μ, Principia Semiotica. Aux sources du sens, Paris, Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2015, 588 p. », par Sémir Badir (pp. 307-314)
« Ferdinand de Saussure, Une vie en lettres 1866-1913. Diachronie dressee par Claudia Mejia Quijano, collection « psyche », editions nouvelles Cecile Defaut, Nantes, 2014, 688 pages, € 35,00. », par Giuseppe Cosenza (pp. 315-320)
« Christian Puech (dir.), « “Faire ecole” en linguistique au xxe siecle : l’école de Genève », = Histoire Epistémologie Langage, vol. xxxvii, no. 2, 2015, pp. 5-111. », par Anne-Gaëlle Toutain (pp. 321-327)
« Estanislao Sofia, La «Collation Sechehaye »du ‘cours de linguistique générale’ de Ferdinand de Saussure. Collection « Orbis Supplementa », t. 43. Leuven-Paris-Bristol : Editions Peeters. 2015, CIII+878 pages, in-4. ISBN : 978-90-429-3254-8. » Notice de l’éditeur (pp. 329-330)
« Anne-Gaelle Toutain, La rupture saussurienne. Lespace du langage, L’Harmattan-Academia, Louvain-La-Neuve, 2013. »,par Thomas Robert (pp. 331-332)
Anne-Gaelle Toutain, La problématique phonologique. Du structuralisme linguistique comme idéologie scientifique. Paris : Classiques Garnier. 2015. 609 pages. », par Estanislao Sofía (pp. 333-338)
