ESSAY ON: The Contributions of Ferdinand de Saussure to Modern Linguistics

Number of Pages 7

This research paper: This 7 page report discusses Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) who is best-known for developing the ideas Plato originally presented in Cratylus regarding the relationship of the “signifier” to the “signified” which is also applicable to the “namer” and the “named.” For de Saussure the “signifier” are unified in an overall “sign” in which the signifier is the sound image related to a particular world while the signified is the conception or the mental image the sound evokes. Bibliography lists 4 sources.


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