The Very Special Place That A Language

The Ultimate Law Of Language Is, Dare We Say, That Nothing Can Ever Reside In A Single Term. This Is A Direct Consequence Of The Fact That Linguistic Signs Are Unrelated To What They Designate And That, Therefore, 'a' Cannot Designate Anything Without The The Aid Of 'b' And Vice Versa, Or, In Other Words, That Both Have Value Only By The Difference Between Them.

Any Psychology Of Sign Systems Will Be Part Of Social Psychology - That Is To Say, Will Be Exclusively Social; It Will Involve The Same Psychology As Is Applicable In The Case Of Languages.

Outside Speech, The Association That Is Made In The Memory Between Words Having Something In Common Creates Different Groups, Series, Families, Within Which Very Diverse Relations Obtain But Belonging To A Single Category: These Are Associative Relations.

Speech Has Both An Individual And A Social Side, And We Cannot Conceive Of One Without The Other.

In Fact, From Then On Scholars Engaged In A Kind Of Game Of Comparing Different Indo-european Languages With One Another, And Eventually They Could Not Fail To Wonder What Exactly These Connections Showed, And How They Should Be Interpreted In Concrete Terms.