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rationality without modifying its functions. In any case, bracketing out the social, which allows language or any other symbolic object to be treated like an end in itself, contributed considerably to the success of structuralist linguistics, for it endowed the ‘pure' exercises that characterize a purely internal and formal analysis with the charm of a game devoid of consequences.

It was therefore necessary to draw out all the consequences of the fact, so powerfully repressed by linguists and their imitators, that the ‘social nature of language is one of its internal characteristics’, as the Course in General Linguistics asserted, and that social heterogeneity is inherent in language. This must be done while at the same time being aware of the risks involved in the enterprise, not the least of which is the apparent crudeness which can accompany the most rigorous analyses capable - and culpable - of contributing to the return of the repressed; in short, one must choose to pay a higher price for truth while accepting a lower profit of distinction.