Semiótica del anagrama: la hipótesis anagramática de Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure dedicated a three year period to the study of what he ealled «anagrams in Indoeuropean poetry». After detailed analysis of several hundred poems, he discovered that in classical Latin, Greek, Vedic and even Germanic verse, the poets had intentionally given their text a double reading: the verse sounds, in addition to being línearly employed in the service of higher, grammaticai units, appeared to be invested with their own semantic task, to give emphasis to the ñames of the central characters featured in the plot of the poem. This book pretends to show the relationship between the ideas presented in Saussure's Anagram Notebooks and those found in his contemporary lessons on General Linguistics, such as sign linearity and linguistic relevance of syntagmatic composition. The links demonstrate the coherence of his thought and his wide philological interests, which contradicts the generally held belief that Saussure's anagram studies represent nothing more than a diversión of no real significance, developed in intellectual isolation from his true academic pursuits.