Gustave Guillaume’s Linguistics. From language to discourse

Abstract

Although Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960) was one of the most influential philosophers in XXth Century French linguistics, his theory is largely unk-nown  in  the  Spanish  sphere.  Nowadays,  new  research  on  his  work  has begun to develop, mostly, in the Université de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle. This paper analyses the way in which Guillaume reformulates Saussure’s langue / parole dichotomy into the langue / discourse one; and then studies specific concepts involved in such proposed dichotomy that are essential from  Guillaume’s  theory,  such  as:  operative  time,  article,  and  incidence and decadence.