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Charles Bally (; 4 February 1865,

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– 10 April 1947, Geneva) was a Swiss

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

from the

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. He lived from 1865 to 1947 and was, like Ferdinand de Saussure, from Switzerland. His parents were Jean Gabriel, a teacher, and Henriette, the owner of a cloth store. Bally was married three times: first to Valentine Leirens, followed by Irma Baptistine Doutre, who was sent into a

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in 1915, and finally with Alice Bellicot. In addition to his edition of de Saussure's lectures, '' Course in General Linguistics'' (co-edited by

Albert Sechehaye Albert Sechehaye (; 4 July 1870, Geneva – 2 July 1946, Geneva) was a Swiss linguist. He is known for editing Ferdinand de Saussure's lectures, ''Course in General Linguistics''. Biography Sechehaye studied at the University of Geneva under Ferd ...

), Charles Bally also played an important role in linguistics. From 1883 to 1885 he studied classical languages and

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. He continued his studies from 1886 to 1889 in Berlin where he was awarded a

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After his studies he worked as a private teacher for the royal family of Greece from 1889 to 1893. Bally returned to Geneva and taught at a business school from 1893 on and moved to the Progymnasium, a grammar school, from 1913 to 1939. He also worked as PD at the university from 1893 to 1913. From 1913 to 1939 he had a professorship for general linguistic and comparative

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which he took over from Ferdinand de Saussure. Besides his works about subjecthood in the French language he also wrote about the crisis in French language and language classes. He was active in

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, serving as a consultant to the research association that presented

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in 1951. Today Charles Bally is regarded as the founding-father of linguistic theories of style and much honored for his theories of

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.Amacker (1995: 240) In terms of modern stylistics he dealt with the expressive function of signs.

References

* ''Traité de stylistique française'' (1909) * ''Le Langage et la Vie'' (1913) * ''La pensée et la langue'', Bulletin de la société linguistique de Paris 22-23 (1922) * ''La Crise du français, notre langue maternelle à l'école'' (1930) * ''Linguistique générale et linguistique française'' (1932) * ''L’arbitraire du signe. Valeur et signification'' (1940) * ''Le langage et la vie'' (troisième édition 1977) * Amacker, René (1995), "Geneva School, after Saussure", in Koerner, E.F.K. & Asher, R.E. (eds.), ''Concise History of the Language Sciences'', Oxford: Pergamon, pp. 239–243. * Esterhill, F., ''Interlingua Institute: A history'', Interlingua Institute (2000).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bally, Charles Linguists from Switzerland Structuralists Writers from Geneva 1865 births 1947 deaths

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