Ferdinand de Saussure (/soʊˈsjʊər/; French: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ də sosyʁ]; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher...

term structure, the semiological concept of Ferdinand de Saussure became fundamental for structuralism. Saussure conceived language and society as a system...

Horace Bénédict de Saussure (French: [ɔʁas benedikt də sosyʁ]; 17 February 1740 – 22 January 1799) was a Genevan geologist, meteorologist, physicist,...

Estonia in 1964 of the first semiotics journal, Sign Systems Studies. Ferdinand de Saussure founded his semiotics, which he called semiology, in the social...

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...

Major figures in contemporary linguistics of these times include Ferdinand de Saussure and Noam Chomsky. Language is thought to have gradually diverged...

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...

synchrony and diachrony are often associated with historical linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who considered the synchronic perspective as systematic but argued...

Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (/soʊˈsjʊər/; French: [də sosyʁ]; 27 November 1829 – 20 February 1905) was a Swiss mineralogist and entomologist specialising...

and parole is a theoretical linguistic dichotomy distinguished by Ferdinand de Saussure in his Course in General Linguistics. The French term langue ('[an...