A Linguistic System Is A Series Of

Any Psychology Of Sign Systems Will Be Part Of Social Psychology - That Is To Say, Will Be Exclusively Social; It Will Involve The Same Psychology As Is Applicable In The Case Of Languages.

Speech Has Both An Individual And A Social Side, And We Cannot Conceive Of One Without The Other.

Written Forms Obscure Our View Of Language. They Are Not So Much A Garment As A Disguise.

It Is One Of The Aims Of Linguistics To Define Itself, To Recognise What Belongs Within Its Domain. In Those Cases Where It Relies Upon Psychology, It Will Do So Indirectly, Remaining Independent.

Psychologically Our Thought-apart From Its Expression In Words-is Only A Shapeless And Indistinct Mass.