Jak Ferdinand de Saussure rozumiał przeciwstawienie „langue” i „parole”?

Abstract

The subject of this article is the interpretation of de Saussure’s terms “langue” and “parole”. Ferdinand de Saussure’s “Course in General Linguistics”, as well as some relevant fragments of the General Linguistics history compendia, lead the author of the paper to conclude that, while referring Saussure’s “langue” to the language system does not raise serious objections, it is impossible to relate Saussure’s identification of “parole” to the modern concept of “text”. In the opinion of the author, the most appropriate translation of the term “parole” would be “use of language” and then from this term it is possible to derive the term of “text”.