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    Ferdinand de Saussure (/soʊˈsjʊər/; French: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ də sosyʁ]; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher...
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    Horace Bénédict de Saussure (French: [ɔʁas benedikt də sosyʁ]; 17 February 1740 – 22 January 1799) was a Genevan geologist, meteorologist, physicist,...
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    France and the Russian Empire, in the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and the subsequent Prague, Moscow, and Copenhagen schools of linguistics...
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    Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure (French pronunciation: [nikɔla teɔdɔʁ də sosyʁ]; 14 October 1767 – 18 April 1845) was a Swiss chemist and student of plant...
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  • Estonia in 1964 of the first semiotics journal, Sign Systems Studies. Ferdinand de Saussure founded his semiotics, which he called semiology, in the social...
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    Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (/soʊˈsjʊər/; French: [də sosyʁ]; 27 November 1829 – 20 February 1905) was a Swiss mineralogist, taxonomist and entomologist...
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  • impacting the work of thinkers such as Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913) was a Swiss linguist who taught for many years in Paris...
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    Major figures in contemporary linguistics of these times include Ferdinand de Saussure and Noam Chomsky. Language is thought to have gradually diverged...
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  • Diachrony and synchrony (category Ferdinand de Saussure)
    synchrony and diachrony are often associated with historical linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who considered the synchronic perspective as systematic but argued...
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  • linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, and a student of Sigmund Freud. Raymond de Saussure was born in Geneva, the son of the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. He underwent...
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  • Langue and parole (category Ferdinand de Saussure)
    and parole is a theoretical linguistic dichotomy distinguished by Ferdinand de Saussure in his Course in General Linguistics. The French term langue ('[an...
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  • originally defined by Ferdinand de Saussure, is "the science of the life of signs in society". Social semiotics expands on Saussure's founding insights by...
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  • from the work of Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and is part of the overall approach of structuralism. Saussure's Course in General Linguistics, published...
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    Signified and signifier (category Ferdinand de Saussure)
    itself. The idea was first proposed in the work of Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, one of the two founders of semiotics. The concept of signs has...
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  • Russian linguist Filipp Fortunatov (1895) and the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1896). According to Fortunatov's 1895 theory, the verbosity in...
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  • elements. In semiology, the tradition of semiotics developed by Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), the sign relation is dyadic, consisting only of a form...
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    scientist Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure. His brothers were linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and Sinologist Léopold de Saussure. He defended a doctoral thesis...
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  • semiotics. Semiotics, tied closely to the structuralism pioneered by Ferdinand de Saussure, was extremely influential in the development of literary theory...
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  • semiology, following on the work of Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913). Peirce was interested primarily in logic, while Saussure was interested primarily in linguistics...
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  • historical-comparative linguist Ferdinand de Saussure at the University of Geneva between 1906 and 1911. It was published in 1916, after Saussure's death, and is generally...
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  • explore the complex, interconnected nature of language and writing. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), it is claimed by Derrida, follows this logocentric...
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    (linguistics): a combination of a concept and a sound-image described by Ferdinand de Saussure In mathematics, the sign of a number tells whether it is positive...
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  • Émile Benveniste (category Academic staff of the Collège de France)
    critical reformulation of the linguistic paradigm established by Ferdinand de Saussure. Benveniste was born in Aleppo, Aleppo Vilayet, Ottoman Syria to...
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  • century by Henri de Saussure; among his descendants were Chancellor Henry William de Saussure and US Senator William F. De Saussure. The family originally...
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  • Orientalism (1978) Jean-Paul Sartre What Is Literature? (1947) Ferdinand de Saussure Cours de linguistique générale (posthumously 1916) Alfred Schmidt The...
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  • learn the theory i.e. properties of the linguistic system, or what Ferdinand de Saussure called internal linguistics. This is followed by practice, or studies...
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    and literary theory; his development of the approach pioneered by Ferdinand de Saussure, known as "structuralism", became a major post-war intellectual...
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  • called glossematics, which further developed the semiotic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure. Glossematics as a theory of language is characterized by a high...
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    Geneva School of Linguistics school was Ferdinand de Saussure. Other important colleagues and students of Saussure who comprise this school include Albert...
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    contemporaneously with the structuralist linguistic theory of Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. Among the most notable of his achievements is the distinction between...
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