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Ferdinand de Saussure

Born

in Geneva, Switzerland

November 26, 1857

Died

February 22, 1913

Genre

Language, Linguistics

Influences

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Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century. Saussure is widely considered to be one of the fathers of 20th-century linguistics and his ideas have had a monumental impact throughout the humanities and social sciences.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 3,792 ratings · 243 reviews · 69 distinct works • Similar authors

	Course in General Linguistics 3.97 avg rating — 3,644 ratings — published 1916 — 189 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	محاضرات في علم اللسان العام by Ferdinand de Saussure, فرديناند دي سوسير, عبد القادر قينيني (ترجمة) 4.08 avg rating — 53 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Linguistik und Semiologie. 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mémoire sur Le Système Primitif des Voyelles dans Les Langues Indo Européennes 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2009 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Écrits de linguistique générale 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phonétique: Il manoscritto di Harvard Houghton library bMs Fr 266 (8) (Quaderni del Dipartimento di linguistica) (French Edition) 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Escritos sobre lingüística general by Ferdinand de Saussure, Clara Ubaldina Lorda Mur (Translator), Antoinette Weil really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Curso de lingüística general. Antología anotada by Ferdinand de Saussure (editor), María Marta García Negroni (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wissenschaft der Sprache. by Ferdinand de Saussure, Ludwig Jäger (Editor), Elisabeth Birk (Translator) 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Course in General Linguistics Per CHF Izd 4 Kurs obshchey lingvistiki Per s fr Izd 4 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure (?)

“I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.”
― Ferdinand de Saussure

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“Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.”
― Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics

tags: language, learning, space

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“Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.”
― Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics

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