Promoted by the Department of Letters of the Center for Human Sciences, Letters and Arts, from September 1st to 4th, the II Ferdinand de Saussure International Colloquium will be held at UFRN.
The objective is to contribute to the socialization of linguistic studies works that dialogue with or are directly linked to the ideas of linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and celebrate the centenary of the publication of the General Linguistics Course (CLG).
The aim is to bring together teachers, researchers, students and other professionals from all university cycles in the field of Linguistics, Literature and other related fields.
Ferdinand de Saussure
The Swiss Ferdinand de Saussure, born in Geneva in 1857, is, unquestionably, the most frequently evoked name when it comes to 20th century Linguistics.
His first works published in the 19th century dealt with the comparative grammar of Indo-European languages, according to the hegemonic linguistic paradigm at the time.
In 1878, he published, in Leipzig, Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues Indo-Européennes (Study on the primitive system of vowels in Indo-European languages).
In 1881, he published his doctoral thesis De l’emploi du génitif absolu en sanscrit (On the use of the absolute genitive in Sanskrit).
After a season in Germany, he went to Paris to continue his training at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. In Paris, he had a fine career.
In 1892, he returned to Geneva and began teaching at the University of Geneva, comparative grammar of the Germanic languages, Greek and Latin, Sanskrit and general linguistics.
He died in the town of Vufflens, in February 1913.
Programming:
01/09
8:00 – Accreditation;
8:30 – Opening ceremony;
9:00 – Conference (José Luiz Fiorin – USP): Theme: Ferdinand de Saussure and the history of linguistics in Brazil;
10:30 – Communications;
14:30 – Round table (Eliane Silveira – UFU; Amanda Scherer – UFSM; Clemilton Pinheiro – UFRN);
Theme: Saussure and Brazilian linguistics;
17:00 – Communications;
19:00 – Exhibition “One hundred years of Saussure”.
02/09
9:00 – Conference – (Irène Fenoglio – ITEM/CNRS-(Paris) – Theme: Language and writing: theoretical differences between Saussure and Benveniste;
10:30 – Round table (Pierre-Ives Testenoire – Sorbonne University (Paris); Giuseppe D´Ottavi – ITEM/CNRS (Paris); Valdir Flores – UFRS) – Theme: Ferdinand de Saussure and Émile Benveniste;
14:30 – Communications.
03/09
9:00 – Conference (Thomas F. Broden – Purdue University (USA) – Theme: Jakobson, Saussure’s heir;
10:30 – Communications
14:30 – Round table (Luiza Ely Milano – UFRS; Marcio Alexandre Cruz – UFAL) – Theme: Ferdinand de Saussure and Roman Jakobson;
17:00 – Closing conference (Daniele Gambarara – University of Degli Studi Di Trieste (Italy) – Theme: The heritage of the CLG: Saussure, saussurisms, structuralisms;
19:00 – Cultural program.
04/09
Meeting with the organizing committee to evaluate the event and consider new conferences with themes focused on Linguistics, as well as exchanges and projects between Brazilian and foreign universities.
For more information, visit: http://www.cchla.ufrn.br/eisaussure/insc.php