Talk:Langue and parole

Poor definitions
I modified the definitions of both parole and langue used in the article, as they frankly made no sense in terms of Saussurian linguistics (they were clearly Chomskyian). As these two approaches to the discipline are fairly antagonistic, it seemed silly to render concepts deployed by Saussure through analogies made with concepts used by Chomsky. I am currently working my way through Cours de Linguistique Generale, and will try to find specific passages to cite in the article. RolandTheHeadlessThompsonGunner (talk) 00:44, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

I added the needed reference. RolandTheHeadlessThompsonGunner (talk) 19:16, 21 September 2009 (UTC)


 * In addition to 'Langue' and 'parole' we also have 'langage' which Saussure also distinguishes. --Tibetologist (talk) 13:47, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Humboldt
The reference to Humboldt strikes me as somewhat arbitrary, and not even so correct an analogy. If Humboldt used the word energeia, he was probably using the Aristotelian concept anyway. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.209.63.12 (talk) 22:24, 11 September 2013 (UTC)