For more info and quotes please visit our webpage www.spanishizer.com / info@spanishizer.com Ferdinand de Saussure ( / s oʊ ˈ sj ʊər / ; [3] French: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ də sosyʁ] ; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist and semiotician . His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiology in the 20th century. [4] [5] He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics [6] [7] [8] [9] and one of two major founders (together with Charles Sanders Peirce ) of semiotics/semiology. [10] One of his translators, Roy Harris , summarized Saussure's contribution to linguistics and the study of "the whole range of human sciences. It is particularly marked in linguistics, philosophy , psychology , sociology and anthropology ." [11] Although they have undergone extension and critique ov...