Harris Roy. Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein. How to play games with words

London and New York: Routledge, 1996. — 136 p.
The history of modern linguistics is not the history of new discoveries about previously unknown languages of the world. It is the history of conflicting views as to how we should set about the analysis of language. In that respect it has little in common with the history of geography, or of physiology, or any of the natural sciences.
In the Graeco-Roman world linguistic enquiry had already become divided into three separate branches: logic, rhetoric and grammar. That influential tripartite division was institutionalised
in the curriculum of the first universities of Europe. It is a division which has left an indelible mark on all linguistic thought in the Western tradition, right down to the present.