Ferdinand de Saussure AND

Noam Chomsky
 BIRTH: NOVEMBER 26TH 1857 (Ginebra)
February 22nd 1913 (Morges)
UNIVERSITY : UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA/LEIPZING UNIVERSITY
ERA: 19TH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
REGION: WESTERN PHILOSOPHY
MAIN INTERESTS: LINGUISTICS
NOTABLE IDEAS: STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS-
SEMIOLOGY
LANGUAGE AND PAROLE
SIGNIFIED AND SIGNIFIER
SYNCHRONY AND DIACHRONY
LINGUSTIC SIGN
SEMIOTIC ARBITRARINESS
LARYNGEAL THEORY
❏ He was a Swisslinguist and
semiotician.
❏ He is widely considered one of
the founders of 20th-century
❏ He was considered one of two
major founders of
semiotics/semiology.
HIS SIGNATURE
NOAM CHOMSKY
Noam chomsky
● Avram Noam Chomsky was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 7
December in 1928.
● Chumsky has since published more
than 100 books.
● He is an institute professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
According to Chomsky, children display “ordinary”
creativity—appropriate and innovative use of complexes of
concepts—from virtually their first words. With language,
they bring to bear thousands of rich and articulate concepts
when they play, invent, and speak to and understand each
other.
 We are all born with an innate knowledge of grammar that serves as the
basis for all language acquisition. In other words, for humans, language is a
basic instinct.
To say it is innate, however, is not to say that the child
is conscious of it or even that it exists, fully formed, at
birth. It is only to say that it is produced by the child’s
system of concept generation and combination, in accordance
with the system’s courses of biological and physical
development, upon their exposure to certain kinds of
environmental input.
Thus, we immediately perceive that the sentence “Robert book reads the” is not
correct English, even though we have a pretty good idea of what it means.

Although humans learn by example, he proposed that we are all born with a
fundamental understanding of the underlying mechanisms of language. Chomsky’s
original work, called universal grammar, is the reason why humans can recognize
grammatically correct yet nonsensical phrases, such as “colorless green ideas sleep
furiously.”
Chomsky thus continues to believe that language is
“pre-organized” in some way or other within the neuronal
structure of the human brain, and that the environment only
shapes the contours of this network into a particular
language.