Ferdinand de Saussure, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ferdinand de Saussure

Swiss linguist (1857-1913)

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1857

Place of Birth: Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland

Date of Death: 22-Feb-1913

Profession: pedagogue, university teacher, sociologist, philosopher, linguist, phonologist

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Ferdinand de Saussure (; French: [f??din?~ d? sosy?]; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist and semiotician.
His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both 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 Mukarovský 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 "new roads were thereby opened not only for linguistics, but also, in the future, for the theory of literature".
Ruqaiya Hasan argued 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".