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El concepto de lingüística geográfica de Ferdinand de Saussure y su repercusión en los estudios de dialectología hispánica
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The Concept of Geographical Linguistics in Ferdinand de Saussure and its Impact on Hispanic Dialectological Studies
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse the influence of Saussurean ideas on the development of Hispanic Philological Studies and, more specifically, on Spanish Dialectology. In order to fulfil this purpose, the first thing we did was to read the Spanish version of the fourth part of the source work, ‘Geographical Linguistics’, in its two fundamental Spanish versions by Amado Alonso and Mauro Armiño. Subsequently, we examined each of the chapters in order to demarcate the particular cases. In the first chapter, ‘On the diversity of languages’, we have established that the approaches of Internal and External Linguistics are predominant, since geographical diversity was the first evidence accumulated in Linguistics, namely the analogies and kinship between languages through language families, the differences between ‘language’ and ‘dialect’. In the second chapter, ‘Geographical diversity: its complexity’, we have highlighted the factors arising from the coexistence of several languages in the same place and the role played by the literary language and the local dialect. In the third chapter, ‘Causes of geographical diversity’, we consider the approach of the postulates that time is the essential cause, since geographical diversity must be translated into temporal and the scheme of geographical difference is only complete when projected in time, in order to reach the conclusion that geographical diversity is a secondary aspect of the general phenomenon and the unity of linguistic areas can only be found in time through innovations and the absence of natural boundaries between languages and dialects. In the fourth chapter, ‘Propagation of linguistic waves’ we study in depth the demonstration of the power of social relations, trade and communication (intercourse) and the spirit of parochialism, as well as the linguistic differentiation in separate areas.
Keywords: Saussure, Geographical Linguistics, Hispanic Dialectology
Citation suggestion: Marinkova, Milena. “El concepto de lingüística geográfica de Ferdinand de Saussure y su repercusión en los estudios de dialectología hispánica”. Transilvania, no. 9 (2025): 46-54.
https://doi.org/10.51391/trva.2025.9.06.
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