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Who introduced the terms langue and parole in linguistic theory?

ANoam Chomsky

BFerdinand de Saussure

CLeonard Bloomfield

DRoman Jakobson

Answer:

B. Ferdinand de Saussure

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Ferdinand de Saussure, a Swiss linguist, introduced the distinction between langue (the structured system of language) and parole (individual speech acts). This was foundational in structuralist linguistics.


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