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An Analysis of Metaphorical Thinking and Its Flaws in the Synchronic and Diachronic Linguistic Sections of Saussure's Institutes of Linguistics

Jiamei Ye, Jiaqi Zhang
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jems.v20.n2.p8
Abstract
The famous Swiss linguist Saussure, the founder of modern structuralist linguistics, first distinguished between diachronic linguistic and synchronic linguistics in his Course of General Linguistics. The most characteristic feature of this tutorial is that he used metaphorical thinking to clarify problems. His dualistic philosophical ideas about language are almost entirely articulated through metaphorical thinking, and some issues are even thought experiments through metaphorical thinking. The elaboration of metaphors in the process of studying tutorials is very useful for understanding knowledge. At the same time, it has been pointed out that certain metaphors make another evaluation. In this paper, we will analyze the use of two metaphors in this chapter through the tutorial chapter on Diachronic Linguistic and Synchronic Linguistics.
Keywords
Saussure; Diachronic Linguistic; Synchronic Linguistics; Metaphorical Thinking
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