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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
De Saussure’s Six Dichotomies
Authors : Guerino Mazzola, Maria Mannone, Yan Pang, Margaret O’Brien, Nathan Torunsky
Published in: All About Music
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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As mentioned in Chapter 2, Ferdinand de SaussureDe Saussure, Ferdinand was a Swiss linguist known as one of the founding fathers of the field of semiotics. In one of his most important theories, de Saussure presented six dichotomies that describe the characteristics of signs and symbols. In this section we will discuss and provide examples for each of these six dichotomies.