ZNAČAJ FERDINANDA DE SAUSSUREA ZA RAZVOJ LINGVISTIČKE STILISTIKE
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LINGUISTIC STYLISTICS

Summary/Abstract: Ferdinand de Saussure is considered to be one of the greatest linguists of all times. He was a man of outstanding sense for scientific theory and a man who made a great impact on his students. He is recognised to be the founder of so called Geneva School and Structural linguistic. In fact, the structuralism rests on the ideas that de Saussure was the first to voice in public. Numerous structuralism schools will have de Saussure’s interpretations of language as the base of their teaching. His pupil Charles Bally had conceived the descriptive stylistics upon de Saussure’s dichotomy of language and thus created the affective stylistics which treats and describes the style of language as a system. For the development of linguistic stylistics, it is important that one study the style on the basis of de Saussure’s teaching given in the framework of the Prague School, known as the School of Functional Stylistics, then the Russian Formalist teaching and other teachings too. This paper will show that Ferdinand de Saussure’s impact on stylistics and linguistic stylistic has been a very inspirational one, given his standing that a language should be considered primarily on the synchronous plane, and that the internal legality of the linguistic structure and function of the language are to be studied as a systems of expressive characters. This will have an impact to the development of one of the most important principles in linguistic stylistics – The Principle of Choice.

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