By Roy Harris
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Fraser, 1894, repr. 21. 40 Rethinking Writing the semiological filter through which the semiologist's exposition is obliged to pass. It is all the more ironical that during all that time almost the only applications of semiological theory to writing itself have been those derived directly or indirectly from Saussure. It seems, in short, that in the twentieth century most writing about writing has simply taken the status of the written sign for granted. In this respect the writers concerned followed faithfully in the footsteps of their predecessors.
Nor can the linguistic community exercise its authority to change even a single word. 8 And on the following page: In fact, no society has ever known its language to be anything other than something inherited from previous generations, which it has no choice but to accept. That is why the question of the origins of language does not have the importance generally attributed to it. It is not even a relevant question as far as linguistics is concerned. 9 The idea that, however far we go back, 'the language has always been there' is one which has very important implications as far as writing is concerned.
For the Athenian writer all that is initially required can be based on relatively simple substitution formulae ('For old spelling x, substitute new spelling jv'), which will be valid independently of the spoken forms. So x acquires a new value, in virtue of functioning as intermediary between the unchanged pronunciation and the changed spelling^. But as familiarity with x recedes (being replaced for new generations byy) the need arises for putting in place a pattern that does not rely on x at all.