The Traité du signe visuel (1992) (which Göran Sonesson said was to visual communication what Saussure’s Cours de linguistique générale was to linguistics) sought to elaborate a general grammar of the image, independently of the type of corpus being considered.
One of Kristeva's most important propositions is the semiotic, as distinct from the discipline of semiotics founded by Saussure.
With the rise of new ideas after the ground break of Saussure's work, prestructuralist diachronic semantics was considerably criticized for the atomic study of words, the diachronic approach and the mingle of nonlinguistics spheres of investigation.
De Saussure (1857–1913) follows this logocentric line of thought in the development of his linguistic sign and its terminology.
His sister, Albertine Necker de Saussure, is a noted early writer on the education of women.
de Saussure's notion of concepts as purely differential: "non pas positivement par leur contenu, mais negativement par leurs rapports avec les autres termes du systeme" p. 162; not positively, in terms of their content, but negatively by contrast with other terms in the same system (tr. Harris 83).
Drawing on the ideas of Saussure and Nietzsche, de Man points out that the rhetorical and tropological dimension of language makes it an unreliable medium for communication of truths.
Saussure | Ferdinand de Saussure | Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure | Horace-Bénédict de Saussure |
Analogy has been considered useful in describing language at least since the time of Saussure.
Héribrand II de Hierges, lord of Hierges died in 1117, was the son of Héribrand I of Saussure, lord of Hierges and Hedwige d'Orchimont.