Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology is a much smaller book, published in Palgrave Macmillan’s “Pivot” series designed for works shorter than traditional monographs.
However, many scholars agree that de Saussure's structuralism was not purely original and that he borrowed concepts from previous schools of linguistics (Hussein & Abushihab, 2014;Moghaddas & Dekhnich, 2015; Muhammadi, 2016).
Structuralism owes its origin to Ferdinand Saussure (26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913). He is renowned for his revolutionary ideas about the fields of linguistics and semiology. His founding role in semiology is only compared with the role of Charles Sanders Peirce. Saussure gave a new status to the understanding of language.
Focuses on the legacy of Saussure's linguistics within structuralism and phenomenology This is the first English-language guidebook geared at an interdisciplinary audience that reflects relevant scholarly developments related to the legacy and legitimacy of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (1916) today.