Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
Ferdinand de SaussureAbout author
- Author's profession: Educator
- Nationality: swiss
- Born: November 26, 1857
- Died: February 22, 1913
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