Through a re-reading of Saussure's work in the light of contemporary developments in the human, life and physical sciences, Paul Thibault presents a means to redefine and refocus theories of social meaning-making. Saussure's theory of language is generally considered to be a formal theory of abstract sign-types and sign-systems, separate from our individual and social practices of making meaning. In this text, Thibault presents a different view of Saussure. Paying attention to the original texts, including the Cours de Linguistic Generale, he demonstrates that Saussure was centrally concerned...