Mémoire sur le Système Primitif des Voyelles Dans les Langues Indo-Européennes
- 308 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Ferdinand de Saussure Book order
November 26, 1857 – February 22, 1913
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.
- 2022
- 1998
Course in General Linguistics
- 236 pages
- 9 hours of reading
The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such diverse areas as art, architecture, folklore, literary criticism, and philosophy.