Beata Stawarska Draws On Recent Developments In Research On Ferdinand De Saussure's General Linguistics To Challenge The Structuralist Doctrine Associated With The Posthumous 'course In General Linguistics' (1916) And To Propose A Phenomenological Interpretation Of Saussure's Study Of Language. Machine Generated Contents Note: The Speaking Subject -- Saussure's General Linguistics Revisited -- The Book And The Author Function -- The Outline Of Contents -- Pt. I Saussurean Doctrine And Its Discontents -- 1.the Signifier And The Signified -- Arbitrariness Of The Sign -- Graphic Illustration: Sign/signifier/signified -- Critique Of The Nomenclature View Of Language -- The Nomenclature View Of Language And Bergson's Philosophy Of Life -- La Langue: Systemic, Social, Historical -- 2.phonocentrism: Derrida -- Natural Symbolism Of Sound -- Metaphysics Of Presence, And Arche-writing -- 3.la Langue And La Parole, Synchrony And Diachrony -- Double Essence Of Language -- Dual Way To Language -- Pt. Ii General Linguistics: Science And/or Philosophy Of Language -- 4.involuntary Assumption Of Substance, And Points Of View In Linguistics -- 5.saussure's General Linguistics As Linguistic Phenomenology -- Predecessors: Kazan School Of Linguistics, Kruszewski -- Contents Note Continued: Saussure's Phenomenon -- Effacement Of Consciousness In The Course -- Consciousness Structured Like A Language -- Beyond The Doctrine -- 6.contributions To Linguistic Phenomenology: Hegel, Husserl, Merleau-ponty -- Phenomenological Science: Hegel And Saussure -- Early Structuralism: Jakobson And Husserl -- Phenomenology Of Language: Merleau-ponty And Saussure -- Pt. Iii The Inception And The Reception Of The Saussurean Doctrine: The Course -- 7.the Editorial Inception Of The Course: Bally And Sechehaye -- Ghostwriting -- Book Reviewing -- The Famous Formula -- Elementary Structures Of Kinship In Academia -- Reversal Of Order -- A Taste For Great Abstractions -- 8.structuralist And Poststructuralist Reception Of The Course -- Structuralism: East And West -- Poststructuralism: Levi-strauss, Lacan, Derrida -- Appendix 1 English Translations Of The Course -- Saussure Seance -- Saussure And Santa -- Appendix 2 Saussure's Silence. Beata Stawarska. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 273-279) And Index.