FTP, who was this man best-known for "Course in General Linguistics"?
This thinker introduced the terms "parole" and "langue", the former defined as the speech of an individual, the latter representing a systematic, structured language. While still a student he established his reputation with his only book, "Memoir on the Original Vowels in the Indo-European Languages", but is most important for his time as teacher at the School of Advanced Studies in Paris and later at the University of Geneva, where two students, Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, collected his lectures into a groundbreaking 1916 work. FTP, who was this man best-known for "Course in General Linguistics"?
This thinker introduced the terms "parole" and "langue", the former defined as the speech of an individual, the latter representing a systematic, structured language.
Ferdinand de Saussure