Ferdinand de Saussure
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 Ferdinand de Saussure facts

• His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments both in linguistics and semiology in the 20th century
• He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics and one of two major founders (together with Charles Sanders Peirce) of semiotics/semiology
• 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, psychology, sociology and anthropology
• " 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
• Prague school linguist Jan Mukařovský writes that Saussure's "discovery of the internal structure of the linguistic sign differentiated the sign both from mere acoustic 'things'
• and from mental processes", and that in this development ew roads were thereby opened not only for linguistics, but also, in the future, for the theory of literature"
• Ruqaiya Hasan argues that "the impact of Saussure’s theory of the linguistic sign has been such that modern linguists and their theories have since been positioned by reference to him: they are known as pre-Saussurean, Saussurean, anti-Saussurean, post-Saussurean, or non-Saussure"