The Languages of Rural Landscapes

Linguistics, in the forms it took during the 20th century, is a fascinating science. It deals with languages seized as wholes and their components, sounds, words and sentences. It delves on the way the components are conditioned by the wholes. It explores the significance of the signs it is made up of. It insists on the two faces of signs, which appear at the same time as signifiers and signified. the explanations linguistics provides are not based entirely on external forms of causation, but also on the inner logic of the relations between the whole and the parts, and between signifiers and signified.