Famous linguists

• Eve Clark. 1st language acquisition
• Ferdinand de Saussure. He proposed the idea of linguistic structure. He said that language is made up of two parts: the signifier and the signified.
• Roman Jakobson. Introduced the idea of 'markedness'
• Edward Sapir. He argues that language is purely human and non-instinctive method of communication
• Paul Grice. He proposed that there are four types of conversational implicatures.
• Noam Chomsky. He is a linguist and philosopher who proposed that language is innate and universal.
• Francis Bacon. Father of English essays
• Leonard Bloomfield. Developed the concept of 'minimal pairs' in phonology
• Geoffrey Chaucer. Father of English Literature
• Michael Halliday. Published the function of language that characterizes how children use language (7 functions of language)
• Stephen Krashen. He contends that language acquisition occurs unconsciously and provides support for the input hypothesis
• William Labov. Founder of discipline of variationist sociolinguistics.
• Benjamin Lee-whorf. Known for the whorfian hypothesis
• Charles Pierce. Founder of pragmatics
• Jean Piaget. He was a Swiss psychologist who proposed that children develop cognitively in stages.
• Ogten and Richards. Introduced the semantic triangle
• William Shakespeare. Father of English Drama
• Deborah Tanen. Famous for their work on discourse analysis
• Lev Vygotsky. Sociocultural theory