De Saussure, Ferdinand (1857–1913)

Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure was the founder of structural linguistics, which broke with philological and historical approaches to language to establish a new approach to language based on the understanding that “language is a form, not an essence.” In defining ...

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