En torno a la teoría saussureana de la motivación lingüística

Abstract

Among the theories, concepts and distinctions, which, having been mentioned for the very first time in the Cours de linguistique générale, could be considered as original Saussurean contributions, some points established by this scholar concerning the current theory of motivation in language may be found. Such contributions, however, have not been sufficiently attributed or indebted to the Professor from Geneva. This fact is focused on throughout this paper whose main objective is to analyse the influence of the Saussurean concept on the theory of motivation in language in subsequent linguistic theories rather than to distinguish the connections that his conception maintains with other reflections on language prior to his. We conclude that Saussure�s theory of motivation in language is taken up by these authors who, nevertheless, do not admit their debt to him and, moreover, they advocate a widening of the scope of the proposal which distorts and contravenes his conceptions.