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Saussure Contribution To Linguistics

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Introduction According to Hasan, (2009) Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) was a Swiss linguist who occupies an important place in the history of linguistics and is generally considered the founder of modern linguistics. He emphasized the importance of looking at language as living sensation; he was the founder of a “theoretic foundation to the newer trend in linguistics study. This essay will be observing the contributions that Saussure made to modern linguistics, historical developments in linguistics and issues raised by those who critiqued Saussure. Historical development in linguistics According to Harris, 2013, Saussure sees the field of linguistics as progressing through a number of stages, which are grammar, philology and language, could …show more content…

according to Seiler,(2016) Semiology can applied to all sorts of human activities (cinema,theatre,dance,politics etc) we use a variety of gestures (signs) in everyday life to convey messages to people around us, Saussure developed this concept/principles of semiology as they applied to language; Barthes extended these ideas to messages (word-and-images relations) of all sorts (Seiler,2016) Issues raised by those who critiqued Saussure A lot people criticized Saussure contributions to modern linguistics, Saussure theory focuses more on, the fact that language has to with signs with use signs to develop and understand language, other theorist stated that language, the way language develops or in order to understand language one must look at the social aspect, for example your surroundings and your social surrounds contributes to the develop of language, for instances if your born in a black family that speaks Zulu obviously you will adopt to the language that you were born in. other theorist like Chomsky stated children are born with an inherited ability to learn human language, Chomsky stated that certain linguistics structures which children use must be imprinted on the child

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