Charles Bally

Charles Bally (born on February 4th 1865 with Geneva and deceased on April 10th 1947) is a linguist, wire of Jean Gabriel, Instituteur, and of Henriette Ruffini, boutiquière in linen industry. Bally was married three times: with Valentine Leirens, then Irma Baptistine Doutre, who was sent to the psychiatric hospital and Alice Bellicot. He studied the traditional Lettres with Geneva of 1883 with 1885. He accomplished a stay with Berlin which will be completed with a thesis of Doctorat (1886 - 1889). The four following years, he was Précepteur of the royal family of Greece. Returned with Geneva, he taught at the business school in 1893 then with the college of 1900 with 1913, while being privatdocent with the Université of 1893 with 1913. Of 1913 with 1939, it occupied the pulpit of general Linguistique and comparison of the Indo-European Langues, after Ferdinand de Saussure of which it published in 1916, with Albert Sechehaye, the Cours of general linguistics while being based on notes of course. In 1937, it is named Honorary doctor of the Sorbonne.

In addition to its work on the Subjectivity in the French language, B. discussed the crisis of the French and the language teaching. Colleague and collaborator of Ferdinand de Saussure, it is closely associated with the birth and the genesis of the Structuralisme. Bally is the founder of a branch of the Stylistique which he regards as a branch of the Linguistique, connects which will remain ignored and whose theoretical bases return implicitly to all the background of Anthropologie Linguistique which developed during second half of the XIXe century. Bally will theorize a Stylistique speech in opposition to a Stylistique Herméneutique:

“Stylistics thus studies the facts of expression of the language organized at the point of sight of their emotional contents, i.e. the expression of the facts of the sensitivity by language and the action of the facts of language on the sensitivity. ” ( the language and the life )

Bally will publish on the Stylistique beginning of its career until in 1929, date of its last conference relative indirectly to stylistics. Then, until its death, in 1947, it will be devoted exclusively to the Linguistique.

Works

Treated of French stylistics (1909)
the Language and the Life (1913)
the thought and the language , Bulletin of the linguistic company of Paris 22-23 (1922)
the Crisis of French, our native tongue at the school (1930)
Linguistic general and linguistic Frenchwoman (1932)
the arbitrary one of the sign. Value and significance (1940)
the language and the life (third edition 1977)

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