2023 Volume 32 Issue 1 Pages 1-25
Most of Saussureans, in recent years, have become to consider that “Le cours de linguistique Générale (The Lectures on General Linguistics)” does not necessarily describe Saussure’s own thought, and that they should analyse original documents, such as Saussure’s autograph drafts and/or audience notes by students, to know Saussure’s true thoughts. This paper describes modernity in the deaf-mute contexts observed in the original documents through analysing them to break through conventional Saussurean studies: (1) Saussure considered that science of languages includes le langage des sourds-muets, (2) le langage des sourds-muets was characterised as historical, physical, and/or traditional time, and (3) le langage des sourds-muets had linguistic norms with the identity/subject of the deaf-mute.
