He laid the foundation for many developments in Linguistics in the 20th century. He perceived linguistics as a branch of a general science of signs he proposed to call semiology?.
A sign is the basic unit of langue. Every langue is a complete system of signs. Parole (speech) is an external manifestation of langue.
His work Cours de linguistique générale was published posthumously 1916 .
See Structuralism.
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