In1944 the first professor of linguistics in Great Britain
Ferdinand de Saussure
Halliday
Language is performed in different contexts, with different people, topics, for different purposes
Franz Boas
Hymes
Noam Chomsky
He established American descriptivist linguistic
“Language is a closed system of structural relations”
Universal Grammar
J.R. Firth
“Children learn language when its use has a meaningful purpose for them”
