This then is the object of Saussure's attention as a linguist and as a semiotician.

这就是索绪尔所注意到的,作为一个符号学家兼语言学家。

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The important thing about Saussure and the discipline of semiotics is the incredible influence that it has had on virtually every form of subsequent literary theory.

索绪尔和其他符号学家都很关注的一件事就是,符号学对于,任意一种文学理论的影响。

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But what is new in Saussure and what really is foundational in semiotics as a science is two things that Saussure then goes on to say about the sign.

但是说索绪尔创造性的开创了,符号学，是因为两件事,这两件事是。

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