WordNet
de Saussure
n. Swiss linguist and expert in historical linguistics whose lectures laid the foundations for synchronic linguistics (1857-1913) [syn: Ferdinand de Saussure, Saussure]
Usage examples of "de saussure".
This is not to claim, in the manner of De Saussure and certain foolish poststructuralists, that all thought is linguistic, or that social reality is constituted exclusively through language.