The embodiment of language: sign function and semiotic threshold

In the last decades a deep revision of Saussure’s conception of language has shed some new light on the nature of language and its double essence , confirming the inadequacy of the dichotomies by which his theory has been vulgarized, especially out of Europe. In a renewed Saussurean philosophy of language , Saussurism is no longer ascribable to an extreme culturalism, nor probably is Structuralism. Indeed, if one rethinks the dialectic between t he faculté du langage , the langue and the parole , and then refocuses the notion of sign function and of semiotic threshold, Saussure’s theory and its structuralist implications could as well suggest a non reductionist perspective that could even venture to enhance the current theories of Embodied Cognition. This paper