Analogy in the Modern Linguistic Course A descriptive approach between De Saussure and Abd al-Rahman al-Haj Saleh

Abstract

Analogy has received great attention since ancient times, and man would not have preserved his language and excelled in it without this mental process which enabled him to express new words being developed by his language.

      Analogy in the modern linguistics course might be related to what the pioneers of the both descriptive- experimental and generative-transformation schools in the West, especially Ferdinand de Saussure and Chomsky, as well as Arab researchers, led by Abd al-Rahman al-Haj Saleh.

      This article comes to present the opinions of two scholars on a subject that attracts many sciences, and a range of opinions and views intertwine in it, and aims to reveal the truth of analogy in both De Saussure and Abd al-Rahman al-Haj Saleh in their writings, and how analogy was connected to the concepts of modern mathematics, and to show the most important points of agreement, contrast and distinction between de Saussure and Abd al-Rahman al-Haj Saleh in the subject of analogy.