3 – The CLG beyond Linguistics

Organizer : IRENE FENOGLIO, Directrice de Recherche, ITEM, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE SESSION

Beyond the obvious case of linguistics, what do the human sciences owe to the publication a century ago of the Course in General Linguistics?

Can we today put the question as directly as that?

The structuralist reading of the CLG has led to the forming of a conceptual space designated as “structuralism” that itself has designated for many years a sort of common fund from which the human sciences have drawn for their definition and development. Phenomenology with Merleau-Ponty, anthropology with Lévi-Strauss, semiology with Greimas, for example, have profited from this space of ideas and have contributed, bit by bit, to ideologizing it. In parallel, because this movement issued from a new understanding of linguistics, the very relationship between the human sciences – in their totality and case by case – has been modified.

If the progressive, multiform invention of “structuralism” profited from the visibility of the human sciences in the 1960s and 1970s, what place does the CLG have in their theoretical work today?

The papers proposed for this session can either take a historiographical perspective on the impact of the CLG on the orientation and development of the human sciences, or be devoted to locating what today is used/discussed/refused from the CLG, but also from the whole of the “Saussure corpus”, i.e. the CLG taken in the context of its sources in the manuscripts of Saussure and others.

If the human sciences generally evoked in this context are anthropology, semiology and  psychoanalysis, the session does not exclude any other field, e.g. philosophy, history, textual and literary studies and epistemology.

Contributions dealt with:

1. Semiology in Saussure and in the CLG
2. The CLG in the development of semiology and semiotics
3. The CLG in the development of the human sciences (anthropology, psychology, history…)
4. The CLG and psychoanalysis
5. The CLG and the study of literature and the arts
6. The CLG and the human sciences today

PLENARY SPEAKERS

• Michel Arrivé (Professeur émérite de l’université de Paris Ouest-Nanterre) : Saussure et l'inconscient
• Jean-Claude Coquet (Professeur émérite de l'Université Paris-VIII): Au-delà de la sémiologie saussurienne

 FINAL DISCUSSION (17 June)

Michel Arrivé : Saussure et la psychanalyse

Jean-Claude Coquet : Saussure et la sémiotique/sémiologie

Marie-Christine Lala  : Saussure et la littérature

Patrice Maniglier  : Saussure et la philosophie

Jacques Coursil  : Saussure et.... les maths.... la musique... 

Et Daniele Gambarara.

Selected papers for parallel sessions