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The Linguistic Sign: The Sign and Purport

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For a good understanding of Hjelmslev’s views concerning what he calls the “purport” it is necessary to go back for a moment to de Saussure’s Cours.

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  1. Cf. Weisgerber: “die Gegenstande des Geistes … sind … offenbar die Stellen, an denen sich Geistiges überhaupt erst bewuszt fassen läszt” (J. L. Weisgerber, Das Gesetz der Sprache, p. 28. Heidelberg, 1951).

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Siertsema, B. (1955). The Linguistic Sign: The Sign and Purport. In: A Study of Glossematics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6671-5_9

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