Między langue a parole: język w perspektywie kodowania

The paper discusses a claim, presented by Linde-Usiekniewicz in her book From Conflict Through Compromise to Collaboration: Semantics, Syntax and Information Structure in Natural Languages, about similarities between some elements of her framework and de Saussure’s langue vs. parole distinction. The framework discussed, called Encoding Grammar, distinguishes language structures that comprise lexical units and their configurations available within a given language and representations of sentences and utterances that appear at different stages of encoding. The paper argues that while there is some valid correspondence between the notion of structure and that of langue, the analogy does not hold for representations and parole.