ABSTRACT
In this article, I propose to put in discussion the place occupied by the notion of the speaker’s body in the Saussurean conception of language as a system. I join the proposal of several linguists, according to which, throughout the course of elaborating the Saussurean concept of sign, the terminological oscillations and ambiguities, until arriving at the terms signifier and signified, consist of an attempt of Genevan to exclude from the sign any trace of sound or conceptual substantiality. By pointing out the signifier, I take up the proposition that the attempt to exclude any trace of sound from the concept of a sign implies an attempt to exclude the body of the speaker from this concept. The excluded body, however, would return to the formulation of language as a system in the form of paradoxes, some of which I intended to address, highlighting those ones that may be indicated in the CLG.
Keywords:
Saussure; body; sound; language system; paradoxes