Ferdinand de Saussure
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Swiss linguist
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Why Is Ferdinand de Saussure Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics and one of two major founders of semiotics, or semiology, as Saussure called it.
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