Phonology and linguistics

Linguistics thus wishes to be the science of language.

Let us set aside all the implicit decisions that have established such a project and all the questions about its own origin that the fecundity of this science allows to remain dormant. Let us first simply consider that the scientificity of that science is often acknowledged because of its phonological foundations. Phonology, it is often said today, communicates its scientificity to linguistics, which in turn serves as the epistemological model for all the sciences of man. Since the deliberate and systematic phonological orientation of linguistics (Troubetzkoy, Jakobson, Martinet) carries out an intention which was originally Saussure's, shall we, at least provisionally, confine ourselves to the latter. Will the argument be equally applicable a fortiori to the most accentuated forms of phonologism? The problem at least be stated.

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