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- Swiss linguist and expert in historical linguistics whose lectures laid the foundations for synchronic linguistics (1857-1913)
How To Use Ferdinand de Saussure In A Sentence
- Roland Barthes's semiology finds it foundation in the structural linguistic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure, who posited an abstract notion known as langue to explain the system of language.
- Ferdinand de Saussure as "langue", is the common language of a community (or rather more in than of a community), is formed and authenticated by writers and regulated and generally orientated by Academies. Camilo José Cela - Nobel Lecture
- As the founder of modern linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure also created the theories of structuralism.