Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist and semiotician born in 1857 in Geneva. He gave lectures developing important principles of language description, arguing that words are collective social products essential for constituting our world, not just labels superimposed on pre-existing things. Saussure viewed language as central rather than peripheral to our understanding of reality, and his work profoundly influenced developments across the human sciences by establishing language as key to comprehending our world.

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“Words are not mere vocal
labels or communicational
adjuncts superimposed upon
an already given order of
things”
His lectures about
important principles of
language description in
Geneva
“They are collective products of
social interaction, essential
instruments through which human
beings constitute and articulate their
world.”
‘Nothing is a sign , unless it is
an interpreted sign’
Saussure was a
Swiss linguist and semiotician.
"Language is no longer
regarded as peripheral to
our grasp of the world we
live in, but as central to
it.”
“This typically twentieth-century
view of language has profoundly
influenced developments
throughout the whole range of
human sciences”
“Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure
was born in Genevain 1857. ”
According to Saussure, a language is
arbitrary because it is systematic in
that the whole is greater than the sum
of its parts
Saussure attempted at various times in the
1880s and 1890s to write a book on general
linguistic matters.