Parole

From Geography

Parole is the French word for speech. Ferdinand de Saussure used this term in his linguistic studies. De Saussure argued it is very important to distinguish Langue (French for language) from parole. Langue describes the social, impersonal phenomenon of language as a system of signs, while parole describes the individual, personal phenomenon of language as a series of speech acts made by a linguistic subject. Those two terms cannot exist without each other. Language has a social aspect (langue) and a individual aspect (parole).

References

• De Saussure, F. (1986). Course in general linguistics (3rd ed.). (R. Harris, Trans.). Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company. (Original work published 1972). p. 9-10

Contributions

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