Ferdinand de Saussure

From RhetorClick

Revision as of 00:16, 18 April 2011 by ChristinaL (Talk | contribs)
Jump to: navigation, search

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 Readings & Resources

Semiotics for Beginners

Semiotics of Social Networking

Purdue OWL: Structuralism and Semiotics

Personal tools
Namespaces
Variants
Actions
Site Navigation
Wiki Help
Toolbox