#booktok #philosophy #literature #literarytheory #saussure Professor Timothy H. Wilson Department of English, University of Ottawa ENG 3375 -- Contemporary Literary Theory Week 4 An introduction to the key concepts of Saussure's modern revolution in linguistics, emphasizing the aspects of Saussure's thinking that influenced the Structuralist movement in the Human Sciences. Later Structuralists who built on the insights of Saussure are also discussed, including Roman Jakobson, Claude Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes. Powerpoint slides for this lecture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N85EOxS7_Mrlc1msmu7qvPFezBF3EhZ3/view?usp=drive_link Course Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/untergehenproject/courses/contemporary-literary-theory-2025-26 0:00 - Introduction 3:07 - Linguistics Before Saussure; Philology; Indo-european language family 10:05 - Semiology 12:27 - Language is not Referential (a naming process) 15:10 - Signifier and Signified 19:35 - Arbitrary nature of the sign 24:30 - Linguistic relativity (Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis); reference to Arrival (2016) 31:45 - Linguistic value -- out of differential relations in the system 42:08 - Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Relations Related Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RsoS2917N0&t=1448s&pp=ygUrbGVvIHN0cmF1cyBhbmQgdGhlIHRocmVlIHdhdmVzIG9mIG1vZGVybml0eQ%3D%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWps2AkdcfE&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V5cobHCvVQWiH63dR5z6Ml&index=1&t=963s&pp=iAQBsAgC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHwZl6kC5zs&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V5cobHCvVQWiH63dR5z6Ml&index=2&pp=iAQBsAgC