Question

Saussure suggested that linguistics should focus on:

• A. Written texts
• B. Spoken language
• C. Historical documents
• D. Grammar rules

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Spoken language

• Saussure defines linguistics as the study of language and as the study of the manifestation of human speech.

• He says that linguistics is also concerned with the history of languages and with the social or cultured influences that shape the development of language.

• It includes such fields as phonology, phonetics, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics and language acquisition.