University of Geneva Leipzig University (PhD, 1880) University of Berlin
Era
19th-century philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Structuralism, linguistic turn,[1] semiotics
Institutions
EPHE University of Geneva
Main interests
Linguistics
Notable ideas
Structural linguistics Semiology Langue and parole Signified and signifier Synchrony and diachrony Linguistic sign Semiotic arbitrariness Laryngeal theory
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Semiotics
General concepts
Sign
relation
relational complex
Code
Confabulation
Connotation / Denotation
Encoding / Decoding
Lexical
Modality
Representation
Salience
Semiosis
Semiosphere
Semiotic theory of Peirce
Umwelt
Value
Fields
Biosemiotics
Cognitive semiotics
Computational semiotics
Literary semiotics
Semiotics of culture
Social semiotics
Methods
Commutation test
Paradigmatic analysis
Syntagmatic analysis
Semioticians
Mikhail Bakhtin
Roland Barthes
Marcel Danesi
John Deely
Umberto Eco
Paolo Fabbri
Gottlob Frege
Algirdas Julien Greimas
Félix Guattari
Stuart Hall
Louis Hjelmslev
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Roman Jakobson
Roberta Kevelson
Kalevi Kull
Juri Lotman
Charles W. Morris
Charles S. Peirce
Susan Petrilli
John Poinsot
Augusto Ponzio
Ferdinand de Saussure
Thomas Sebeok
Michael Silverstein
Eero Tarasti
Vladimir Toporov
Jakob von Uexküll
Victoria, Lady Welby
Related topics
Copenhagen–Tartu school
Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School
Structuralism
Post-structuralism
Deconstruction
Postmodernism
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Ferdinand de Saussure (/soʊˈsjʊər/;[4]French:[fɛʁdinɑ̃dəsosyʁ]; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century.[5][6] He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics[7][8][9][10] and one of two major founders (together with Charles Sanders Peirce) of semiotics, or semiology, as Saussure called it.[11]
One of his translators, Roy Harris, summarized Saussure's contribution to linguistics and the study of "the whole range of human sciences. It is particularly marked in linguistics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychology, sociology and anthropology."[12] Although they have undergone extension and critique over time, the dimensions of organization introduced by Saussure continue to inform contemporary approaches to the phenomenon of language. As Leonard Bloomfield stated after reviewing the Cours: "he has given us the theoretical basis for a science of human speech".[13]
^David Kreps, Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence, Springer, 2015, p. 92.
^Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller (eds.), The Handbook of Linguistics, John Wiley & Sons, 2008, p. 96. However, E. F. K. Koerner maintains that Saussure was not influenced by Durkheim (Ferdinand de Saussure: Origin and Development of His Linguistic Thought in Western Studies of Language. A contribution to the history and theory of linguistics, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn [Oxford & Elmsford, N.Y.: Pergamon Press], 1973, pp. 45–61.)
^"Saussure, Ferdinand de". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 12 July 2020.
^Robins, R. H. 1979. A Short History of Linguistics, 2nd Edition. Longman Linguistics Library. London and New York. p. 201: Robins writes Saussure's statement of "the structural approach to language underlies virtually the whole of modern linguistics".
^Harris, R. and T. J. Taylor. 1989. Landmarks in Linguistic Thought: The Western Tradition from Socrates to Saussure. 2nd Edition. Chapter 16.
^Justin Wintle, Makers of modern culture, Routledge, 2002, p. 467.
^David Lodge, Nigel Wood, Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, Pearson Education, 2008, p. 42.
^Thomas, Margaret. 2011. Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics. Routledge: London and New York. p. 145 ff.
^Chapman, S. and C. Routledge. 2005. Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh University Press. p.241 ff.
^Winfried Nöth, Handbook of Semiotics, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1990.
^Harris, R. 1988. Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein. Routledge. pix.
^Bloomfield L., Cours de Linguistique Générale by Ferdinand de Saussure, Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, The Modern Language Journal, Feb. 1924,
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