"Signe, signifié, signifiant" and "Premier principe: l'arbitraire du signe".
In: Ferdinand de Saussure, Cours de linguistique générale: Édition critique préparée par Tullio de Mauro [A course in general linguistics: Critical edition prepared by Tullio de Mauro], pp. 97-102.
Enlarged edition, Paris: Payot, 1985, reprint 1997. Postface by Louis-Jean Calvet.
First edition: 1972. De Saussure's original published by Charles Bally and Albert Séchehaye, in collaboration with Albert Riedlinger, Genève, 1916.
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"Sign, signified, signifier " and "Principle I: the arbitrary nature of the sign".
In: Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in general linguistics.
New York: Philosophical Library, 1959, pp. 65-70. Translation of Saussure (1916), translated by Wade Baskin.
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