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Ferdinand de Saussure

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November 26, 1857 in Geneva, Switzerland

died

February 22, 1913

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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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Books by Ferdinand de Saussure

Average rating: 3.85 · 614 ratings · 38 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure, Roy Harris 3.83 avg rating — 586 ratings — published 1916 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Writings in General Linguistics 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Phonétique: Il Manoscritto Di Harvard Houghton Library B Ms Fr 266 (8) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Scritti Inediti Di Linguistica Generale by Ferdinand de Saussure, Tullio De Mauro 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	My rating:
	Mémoire Sur Le Système Primitif Des Voyelles Dans Les Langues Indo Européennes 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Linguistik Und Semiologie by Ferdinand de Saussure, Johannes Fehr (Herausgeber) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Saussure's Second Course of Lectures on General Linguistics (1908-09): From the Notebooks of Albert Riedlinger and Charles Patois 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1997	My rating:
	Corso di linguistica generale 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Recueil des publications scientifiques de Ferdinand de Saussure 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
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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