Structuralism according ferdinand saussure biography

By Julia Kinsley

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), was a Swiss Linguist who laid the great foundation of the field of Linguistics in 20tth century.

Structuralism according ferdinand saussure biography

The book Cours de Linguistiques Générale, written by his disciples published posthumously in 1916, is a compilation of his lectures given at University of Geneva around 1901 or 1906. It has become an essential text in the literary canon of linguistics as the book documents his research, ideas, and analysis of the nature of language that gives us a great insight into the basics of structural linguistics.

For anyone new to the linguistics, it becomes necessarily important to be thoroughly familiar with the major dichotomies or concepts that Saussure came up with in his Cours de Linguistiques Generale (1916).

Through these principles or concepts, we can trace back the origins of the Structural Linguistics.

Langue & Parole

The language is constituted of two