When1: 1949
Who: Ferdinand de Saussure [Saussure, Ferdinand de]
What: linguist
Where: France
works\ Course of General Linguistics [1949]
Detail: He lived 1857 to 1913 and founded modern structural linguistics {structuralism, linguistics} {structural linguistics}.
Phonemes marks usage differences in sound or symbol systems. Phonemes are not physical, separate, independent elements.
Word values are functions of exchangeable and non-exchangeable words {substitution, word} {word substitution}. Word connections provide word meanings, so word meaning depends on all word values. Speaker and listener vocabularies must be identical to convey full meaning in communication.
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