A term sometimes used in the translation of the speech.
Ferdinand de Saussure divided language (langue), seen as a self-sufficient system of formal differences, from speech (parole), the actual utterance of the individual utterer.
He did this to facilitate the consideration of language as a formal object of linguistics, intending his research to focus on language, not speech or discourse.
While for many, language carries the idea of a system (a resource on which the utterer can rely), discourse and speech suggest procedural, inclusion, and repulsion — a struggle in which historically situated agents are involved.
The term “dominant discourse” is often used to denote the prevailing discourse, excluding the possibility of dominating other discourses.
