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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 pronunciation: [ɔʁas benedikt də sosyʁ]; 17 February 1740 – 22 January 1799) was a Genevan geologist, meteorologist...
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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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  • 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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    René de Saussure (17 March 1868 – 2 December 1943) was a Swiss Esperantist and professional mathematician (he defended a doctoral thesis on a subject...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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