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Ferdinand de Saussure on Communication

d. 1913 Switzerland

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Language is a system of signs that express ideas, and is therefore comparable to a system of writing, the alphabet of deaf-mutes, symbolic rites, polite formulas, military signals, etc. But it is the most important of all these systems.

Cours de linguistique générale (1916)

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