This edition is a classic work of the Patriarch of the Geneva Linguistic School and one of the founders of modern linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure. Recreated after the death of the scientist by his students S. Balli and A. Seshe from student notes of lectures "Course of General Linguistics" laid down the fundamental principles of linguistic science, which retain their significance to the present. The book is recommended to linguists of all specialties, students and graduate students, philologists, sociologists, all interested in language problems.