Question

Saussure’s work focuses on the relationship between:

• A. Language and society
• B. Sound and meaning
• C. Grammar and syntax
• D. Speech and writing

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Sound and meaning

• One of Saussure's key contributions to modern linguistics is the principle of the arbitrariness of the link between sound and meaning, or more precisely between signifier and signified within the linguistic sign, his most detailed discussion of which took place in his third course in general linguistics in 1910-11.