LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Cleanth Brooks
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Ferdinand de Saussure
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Karl Marx
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Toni Morrison
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Detailed explanation-1: -This principle was first stated clearly, for linguistics, by the Swiss scholar Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913).
Detailed explanation-2: -Ferdinand de Saussure (b. 1857–d. 1913) is acknowledged as the founder of modern linguistics and semiology, and as having laid the groundwork for structuralism and post-structuralism.
Detailed explanation-3: -Noam Chomsky – ‘The Father of Modern Linguistics’
Detailed explanation-4: -Saussure contended that language must be considered as a social phenomenon, a structured system that can be viewed synchronically (as it exists at any particular time) and diachronically (as it changes in the course of time).
Detailed explanation-5: -Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), the founding figure of modern linguistics, made his mark on the field with a book he published a month after his 21st birthday, in which he proposed a radical rethinking of the original system of vowels in Proto-Indo-European.