Ferdinand de Saussure
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Biography
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.
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
Further Readings
Other Scholarly Views
Agreement
Those authors that agree with Saussure.
Opposition
Those authors that disagree with Saussure.
