As the father of modern linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure influences all aspects of linguistic development with no exception of Cognitive Grammar. A scrutiny of how Saussure is understood in Cognitive Grammar indicates that Saussurean linguistics is misinterpreted in terms of five core ideas: (1) langue, rather than parole, is given highest priority; (2) the internal relation of “signifier-signified” counts as the pairing of “form-meaning”; (3) “arbitrariness” is contradictory to “symbolicity”; (4) “arbitrariness” means “unmotivatedness”; (5) arbitrariness is not the inherent nature of morphological and syntactic structures. This paper is intended to reassess these five ideas and argue that they depart further from Saussure’s thought.

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如何在认知语法中误解索绪尔

作为现代语言学之父，费迪南德·索绪尔（Ferdinand de Saussure）影响语言发展的各个方面，除了认知语法外。对“认知语法”中对索绪尔理解方式的审查表明，索绪尔的语言学在五个核心思想上被误解了：（1）语言（而不是假释）被赋予最高优先级；（2）“符号表示”的内部关系算作“形式意义”的配对；（3）“任意性”与“象征性”相矛盾；（4）“任意性”是指“无动于衷”；（5）任意性不是形态和句法结构的内在本质。本文旨在重新评估这五个想法，并认为它们与索绪尔的思想背道而驰。