In this series, we will talk about the main developments in the discipline that was later called Linguistics, which lead us to our current understanding of the properties of language, the relationship between language and our social world and the creation of meaning itself. In this brief history we will encounter, among others, the likes of Louis Hjelmslev and his Copenhagen School of Linguistics, Roman Jakobson, who paved the way for linguistic thought to enter other domains, such as anthropology or literary theory. Leaving the linguistic field proper we turn to the late Ludwig Wittgenstein and encounter the limits of meaning, before Ernesto Laclau proposes that the linguistic system, such as rhetorical tropes, can be seen as the basis of society as a whole.