Ferdinand de Saussure’s concept of parole

Faculty or exercise of language?

Abstract

Parole is a Saussurean concept about which there is few direct definitions within Ferdinand de Saussure’s elaborations. However, this concept can be characterized in a relational way, from the definitions of langue and langage. Nevertheless, there are still some questions regarding the delimitation of this concept; it is possible, for example, to consider a terminological a terminological-conceptual convergence between the concept of parole and the notions of faculty and exercise of language. Considering this, in this work, we aim to investigate, in some of Saussure’s documents, what are the possible relations between the concept parole, and the notions of exercise of language and faculty of language.
Keywords: Parole. Faculty of language. Concept. Saussure. Course in General
Linguistics.