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Everyone, Left To His Own Devices, Forms An Idea About What Goes On In Language Which Is Very Far From The Truth.

The Connection Between The Signifier And The Signified Is Arbitrary.

It Is One Of The Aims Of Linguistics To Define Itself, To Recognise What Belongs Within Its Domain. In Those Cases Where It Relies Upon Psychology, It Will Do So Indirectly, Remaining Independent.

In The Lives Of Individuals And Societies, Language Is A Factor Of Greater Importance Than Any Other. For The Study Of Language To Remain Solely The Business Of A Handful Of Specialists Would Be A Quite Unacceptable State Of Affairs.

Within Speech, Words Are Subject To A Kind Of Relation That Is Independent Of The First And Based On Their Linkage: These Are Syntagmatic Relations, Of Which I Have Spoken.