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Langue is the abstract system of rules (Grammar), while parole is the actual speaking we do.

Why do you know that a "dark and stormy night" in a novel suggests something bad is coming, but the same sentence in a weather report is just a fact? Structuralist poetics : structuralism, linguist...

The word "Rose" (the sound/ink) is the signifier . The concept of a flower is the signified . Langue is the abstract system of rules (Grammar),