Linguistic’s,
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In this century, Linguistics, the scientific study of language, has seen a quite extraordinary expansion. The study of language has held a tremendous fascination for some of the greatest thinkers of the century, notably Ludwig Wittgenstein and Noam Chomsky, whose influence has been felt far beyond linguistics.
Much of the impetus for this interest in linguistics originated with the Swiss linguist, Ferdinand de Saussure, from whose work (Course in General Linguistics, his lectures published in 1915 after his death by two of his students) French theorists developed ‘structuralism’, out of which (in part against which) grew ‘post-structuralism’, both of which have placed enormous influence on language and both of which have had a formative influence on cultural studies. This emphasis on language is often referred to as ‘the linguistic turn’ in philosophy.
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