Ferdinand de Saussure (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
Ferdinand de Saussure (saw-soor) is regarded by most scholars as the creator of modern linguistics—the scientific, objective study of language. Although he published only a few papers and no major works during his lifetime, the lecture notes of his students have been collected and edited into one of the most influential texts of modern linguistics, Course in General Linguistics. His major accomplishment was to establish the systematic study of language as an objective subject; he also pointed the way to the development of the discipline of semiology, or the study of signs and...
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