Who was the chief exponent of structuralism?
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The chief exponent of structuralism was the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. Saussure's work laid the foundation for structuralism, particularly in the field of linguistics, with his emphasis on the structural properties of language and the relationships between its elements. His ideas influenced structuralist approaches in other disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, and literary theory. Saussure's concepts, such as the distinction between langue (the underlying structure of language) and parole (individual speech acts), and the notion of the linguistic sign consisting of a signifier and a signified, were central to the development of structuralist thought.