Linearity is a term used by Ferdinand de Saussure to denote two main characteristics of the signifier – it is part of a chain or sequence, where the presence of one signifier requires its replacement by the previous one.
Saussure formulated arbitrariness and linearity as the two “primary characteristics of the linguistic sign” (67).
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