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Ferdinand de Saussure
1857 – 1913
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
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- European Theory & Influence
- Structuralism
- Literary Theory
About
Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics and one of two major founders of semiotics, or semiology, as Saussure called it.
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