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This book is a language manual that deals with various aspects of the Croatian language. The manual covers Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin languages.
Guiraud defines semiology as the science of signs and sign systems. He starts from Saussure's idea that language is the model for the study of all other signs.
The manual contains works from the field of linguistics, valuable to every student of the theory of the standard Croatian language and language culture.
Jonathan Culler, an American literary and structuralist theorist, presents Ferdinand de Saussure in this classic study as the father of modern linguistics – a thinker who, along with Freud and Durkheim, revolutionized the study of man and society.
Words are like people: they are born, grow, travel, cross the borders of municipalities, provinces and states, adapt, change nationality and citizenship, reproduce, age and die, and – unlike people, similar to gods – they can also be resurrected.
Ranko Bugarski, a distinguished linguist, in his book Language and Linguistics provides a clear and accessible overview of basic linguistic terms and methods.