The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who defined the modern discipline of linguistics, first explicitly formulated the distinction using the French word langage for language as a concept, langue as a specific instance of a language system, and parole for the concrete usage of speech in a particular language.
This global nation finds comfort in the rhetoric of diffused unity thanks to modern technology, producing a single language – images – or a single langue such as English as a medium of participation in internet sites and email exchange.
He is a baby-hugging campaigner in the populist mould, but, after nearly ten years as president, has perfected la langue de bois, a form of bland political evasion.
A similar desire for systematic analysis inspired Claude Favre, sieur de Vaugelas, also an Academician, whose Remarques sur la langue françoise (1647) records polite usage of the time.
"Il pique la langue," -- it stings the tongue -- I once heard a happy client cry in a bistro in Lyon.
2. Humboldt's correspondence with the French linguist Abel-Rémusat has been published in France in an excellent edition by Jean Rousseau and Denis Thouard: Lettres Édifiantes et Curieuses sur la Langue Chinoise.
A fine way to sample Mr. Yvon's talent is to buy an assortment of small pastries and tartlets, with a few langues de chat thrown in for good luck.
besides being simply a theoretical fiction (c.f., 4) a linguistics of langue sans parole will be unable to account for these phenomena; the price for a pure linguistics of langue is failure to understand the true nature of the semiological system of language; 7.
Saussure also introduced several basic dimensions of linguistic analysis that are still fundamental in many contemporary linguistic theories, such as the distinctions between syntagm and paradigm, and the Langue-parole distinction, distinguishing language as an abstract system (langue), from language as a concrete manifestation of this system (parole).
Ultimately we chose France Langue, a venerable educational institution (25 years in Paris).
If you've managed to learn a few words of Basque or Catalan, forget them - the language here is Aranese, a dialect of the langue d'oc.
