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Saussure suggested that linguistics should focus on:

AWritten texts

BSpoken language

CHistorical documents

DGrammar rules

Answer:

B. Spoken language

Read Explanation:

  • Saussure defines linguistics as the study of language and as the study of the manifestation of human speech.

  • He says that linguistics is also concerned with the history of languages and with the social or cultured influences that shape the development of language.

  • It includes such fields as phonology, phonetics, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics and language acquisition.


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