Ferdinand de Saussure
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Ferdinand De Saussure (1857-1907) was a Swiss linguist. He studied linguistics at the University of Leipzig (1876) then later studied in Berlin. From 1881-1891, after receiving his doctorate from Leipzig, he taught in Paris, and in 1891, he accepted a professorship at Geneva. He taught at the University of Geneva for the rest of his career. In 1907, he started teaching General Linguistics.
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Biography
Notable Quotes
Article Summaries
"Nature of the Linguistic Sign" by Ferdinand de Saussure
Additional Works/Publications
Semiotics of Social Networking
Purdue OWL: Structuralism and Semiotics