From: "chris jones" <[log in to unmask]>
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Perhaps we can let the obvious bleed and bleed all over the place until one
must even question the basis of the formal distinction between speech and
writing, langue and parole.
"
Uh ... Surely (unless I've completely misunderstood his students' reports)
Saussure's langue/parole distinction was between the language system
(langue) and the linguistic act (parole). Saussure (again, by report)
couched this in terms of language system vs. speech [sic] act, but was
surely NOT making a distinction between speech and writing, but between
system (whether written or spoken) and utterance. I suspect he'd have been
less than enthused by Derrida prioritising writing over speech.
Still, nice to find the Edinburgh Maoist being burke&hared -- come back
Categories of the Theory of Grammar, all is to be forgiven.
Robin Hamilton
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