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The 29 pages that link to Ferdinand de Saussure, each with the reason it gives.

• PhonologyRelated: His distinction between language-system relations and individual speech influenced structural phonology.

• SemioticsRelated: His signifier–signified model became a foundation for European semiotics.

• SymbolRelated: His model highlights the conventional bond between a symbol’s form and concept.

• Jacques DerridaRelated: Saussure’s account of signs supplied a major point of departure for Derrida’s critique.

• Structural linguisticsRelated: His account of language as a system of signs became a foundational model for the approach.

• Roland BarthesRelated: Saussure’s distinction between signifier and signified underpins Barthes’s account of signs.

• Roman JakobsonRelated: Jakobson developed structural ideas in a field transformed by Saussure’s account of language.

• DeconstructionRelated: His account of signs as differences within a system shaped Derrida’s early questions about meaning.

• PoststructuralismRelated: His account of relational signs supplied a key starting point for poststructuralist critiques of fixed meaning.

• Signifier and signifiedRelated: He formulated the distinction between a sign’s perceptible form and its concept.

• Laryngeal theoryRelated: His 1879 analysis proposed abstract coefficients later associated with laryngeal consonants.

• Post-structuralismRelated: His account of relational signs became a starting point for structuralist and post-structuralist debates.

• LinguisticsRelated: His distinction between language systems and individual speech shaped modern theory.

• Proto-Indo-European phonologyRelated: His analysis anticipated part of the laryngeal reconstruction.

• Formal linguisticsRelated: His account of language as a system of relations shaped structural approaches to linguistic form.

• Jacques LacanRelated: Lacan adapted Saussurean ideas about signs while altering the relation between signifier and signified.

• Binary oppositionRelated: His account of relational meaning helped establish the framework for structural analysis.

• Prague Linguistic CircleRelated: His distinction between system and use informed the Circle’s structural framework.

• SignRelated: His account treats signs as relations between signifier and signified.

• Nikolai TrubetzkoyRelated: Saussure’s account of language as a system informed the structuralist context around Trubetzkoy.

• Word (linguistics)Related: Structural linguistics distinguished linguistic units through their relations within a system.

• Ernest RenanRelated: Saussure studied under Renan, linking Renan’s philological scholarship to later linguistics.

• Louis HjelmslevRelated: Hjelmslev extended Saussurean structuralism while rebuilding its concepts in more abstract terms.

• Bouba–kiki effectRelated: His account of linguistic signs makes a useful backdrop for the effect’s apparent sound–meaning links.

• Charles BallyRelated: Bally studied with Saussure and helped preserve and publish his influential lectures.

• Theoretical linguisticsRelated: His account of linguistic signs and systems shaped structural approaches to language.

• Romance studiesRelated: Structural linguistics changed how Romance language scholars could analyze language beyond historical origins.