pIn 1916, three years after the death of Ferdinand de Saussure, the emCours de linguistique g n raleem CLG was published in Geneva. This foundational work marked the beginning of a discipline that has profoundly influenced the development of the humanities ever since.ppWhat sources influenced the CLG Do the main concepts of this seminal work have the same validity today as they did in 1916 How has the recent development of language sciences influenced its reception How does this text account for meaning and communication within the context of speech emparoleemppIn order to explore these questions, one hundred years after the publication of Ferdinand de Saussure's seminal work on General Linguistics, Polis--The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities held an interdisciplinary conference that gathered 14 international specialists from various disciplines general linguistics, pragmatics, philology, dialectology, translation studies, terminology, and philosophy.ppThe first section