Sanders Carol (Editor). The Cambridge Companion to Saussure

Cambridge Companions Online. — Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 289 p.Why, still today, do we find the name of Ferdinand de Saussure featuring prominently in volumes published not only on linguistics, but on a multitude of topics, volumes with titles such as Culture and Text: Discourse and Methodology in Social Research and Cultural Studies (Lee and Poynton, 2000), or the intriguing Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers (Kronenfeld, 1996)? It is to this question that the present volume attempts to bring at least a partial answer, by looking afresh at the intellectual background to Saussure’s work, the work itself, its impact on European structuralism in general and linguistics in particular, and its changed but continuing influence today.