Abstract:
As language is the reflection of our thoughts, it has taken a major role in logical researches.
Ferdinand de Sassure is linguistic philosopher, who was born in 1857 at Geneva capital
city of Switzerland, had done pioneer researches on linguistics structure in the scientific
perspective. Even though animals and plants are utilizing the language for communication,
the human language is unique. Generally, we can divide a language into two parts such as
written language and speech language. But, the people, who use the language, express
their uniqueness in their speech. As a result, human being has been adding more new words
in their language. This process brings new things as well as removes the old versions. These
all progressions are being happened in the speech. Saussure thought that it was impossible
to analyze these all things in language and he had tried to bring a limitation in linguistic
structure. The method of linguistic structure is not a new one and also it isn’t created one.
It has been standing itself in the language and it is same to all languages of the world. This
structure is identified by the human mind without the help of empirical experiences. This
language structure modifies our written and spoken languages in a proper order in the
light of the grammatical laws. The meaning of a word depends on the difference between
the method of language and the symbols. We can relate this language structure with
philosophy. Saussure’s language structure has got the supremacy to explain verses which
are used in Logic such as terms, prepositions, inferences, fallacies and symbolic languages
in symbolic Logic. This paper attempts to research the Saussure’s language structure and
philosophical perspectives on language in the approach of philosophy of language.
Secondary data have been utilized for this study and analytical method, comparative
method and critical method are applied to analyze the data.
