Saussurean linguistics treats langue as code and langage as the messages it generates

Evidence

In modern linguistics (and Gramsci studied linguistics at the very beginning of the modern period) lingua (“la langue”) usually means the code, and linguaggio (“le langage”), besides its generic sense, also refers to the set of messages transmitted, i.e. the concretisation of the abstract rules of a lingua . — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2509

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the code-versus-message relation so ‘language’ stops being an ambiguous term in the reader’s notes.
• XREF: Connects to structuralist semiotics that later cultural-studies and Orientalism scholarship borrows; useful when the reader hits ‘discourse’ in the Islamophobia readings. — connects to: Cultural analysis adopted Saussure’s linguistic structural model — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 289; Language denotes both a code system and the messages transmitted through it
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Cultural analysis adopted Saussure’s linguistic structural model — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 289; Language denotes both a code system and the messages transmitted through it

Broader Connections

• Language denotes both a code system and the messages transmitted through it #expands (0.95)