Ferdinand de Saussure

Tags: Philosopher.

Ferdinand de Saussure (/sɔːˈsʊr/ or /soʊˈsʊr/; French: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ də sosyʁ]; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist and semiotician whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments both in linguistics and semiology in the 20th century.

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birth date

1857-11-26

birth place

Geneva, Switzerland

death date

1913-02-22

death place

Switzerland, Vaud, Vufflens-le-Château

era

19th-century philosophy

influenced

Jürgen Habermas, Jacques Lacan, Leonard Bloomfield, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Noam Chomsky, Roman Jakobson, William Labov, Émile Benveniste, Antoine Meillet, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Louis Hjelmslev, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Louis Althusser, Roy Harris (linguist), Ernesto Laclau, Prague school, Jan Mukařovský, John Rupert Firth, Sebastian Shaumyan

influenced by

Charles Sanders Peirce, Émile Durkheim, Hermann Oldenberg, August Leskien

LCCN Id

n/79/43763

main interest

Linguistics

notableIdea

Synchronic analysis, Langue and parole

philosophicalSchool

Semiotics, Structuralism

region

Western philosophy