Saussure attempts to create a difference between language and speech. From what I seem to understand language has specific boundaries that relate to “union of meanings and sound images”. Speech is intangible therefore more difficult to understand and interpret. Saussure demonstrates that language when written is tangible, and therefore can be studied separately ( Sausssure 850). He demonstrates important issues that come into the study of language. It is important to note how language and linguistics are essential to public. People do not think about the words we use in every day life therefore “prohibiting any research into its true nature” (Saussure 851). 

Saussure portrays the significant of the signs and the words we use to describe such signs. Everything that is involved in linguistics and language has significant meaning. The signs are just as important as the words we use everyday. The signs we use unites ” not a thing and a name but a concept and a sound image” (Saussure 852).  The importance of the sound and impact these words have on our daily lives give it meaning.  The symbol is another term for the signifier, due to the fact that we have given a certain object a specific meaning. They have a specific value.

Saussure wants to demonstrate that society has constructed words to specify a meaning and can be created by anyone. It is supposed to chain together what we think and the sounds we used to imitate an object. Saussure demonstrates that “one can neither divide sound from thought nor thought from sound” (857).  We create the different signs and sounds together and therefore give it a different meaning.