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Ferdinand de Saussure was the founder of modern linguistics with the publishing of his work Cours de Linguistique générale in 1915. Modern linguistics maintains that spoken language is primary, while writing represents speech. It views linguistics as a descriptive science concerned with how people actually use language, rather than a prescriptive study of correctness. Saussure introduced key concepts including the distinction between synchronic and diachronic description of language, the view of language as
- Author
- Julieta Abraham
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- EN