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It is not unusual for contemporary linguists to claim that “Modern Linguistics began in 1957” (with the publication of Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures

This wide-ranging and original study reveals how prevalent modernism has become in the social sciences. With contributions from a number of leading internationa

"In a language there are only differences without positive terms. Whether we take the signified or the signifier, the language contains neither ideas nor sounds