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De Saussure’s Six Dichotomies

  • Guerino Mazzola
  • , Maria Mannone
  • , Yan Pang
  • , Margaret O’Brien
  • , Nathan Torunsky

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Abstract

As mentioned in Chapter 2, Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist known as one of the founding fathers of the field of semiotics. In one of his most important theories, de Saussure presented six dichotomies that describe the characteristics of signs and symbols. In this section we will discuss and provide examples for each of these six dichotomies.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationComputational Music Science
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages71-80
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016

Publication series

NameComputational Music Science
ISSN (Print)1868-0305
ISSN (Electronic)1868-0313

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer International Publishing AG.

Keywords

  • Artistic Interpretation
  • Music Theory
  • Musical Creativity
  • Musical Notation
  • Semiotic System

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