Conceptualization of the Terms Parole and Discours in the Autograph Texts of Ferdinand de Saussure

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze all textual uses of the terms parole and discours in non-canonical but authentic (as opposed to “Course of General Linguistics”) materials written by Ferdinand de Saussure in “Écrits de linguistique générale” and edited by Simon Bouquet and Rudolf Engler. The publication includes the manuscript of the monograph “De l’essence double du langage”, drafts of lectures and articles, as well as several diary notes of Saussure. My task is to conceptually verify the terminology of the Swiss linguist in comparison with the traditional use of these terms and their translations into Ukrainian, Russian and Polish languages.