A Brief Introduction to Structuralism Zhu Gang The English word “structure” comes from structum‚ the past participle of the Latin struere‚ meaning “put in order.” There are two kinds of structuralism: structuralism as a mode of thinking‚ a general tendency of thought‚ or a philosophical view‚ and the narrower definition relating it to a method of inquiry‚ deriving chiefly from linguistics. Structuralism as a way of thinking can be traced back at least to Aristotle‚ whose Poetica is an
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semiology theories of the Swiss philosopher Ferdinand de Saussure. In his book “A Course in General Linguistics”‚ Saussure is defines semiotics as “a science that studies the life of signs within society is conceivable it would be part of social psychology and consequently of general psychology”. According to Saussure‚ signs consist of two parts: a signifier (the form which the sign takes) and a signified (the concept it represents). Saussure argues that the relationship between the signifier and
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Great Dane Doritos Commercial The commercial I choose to do my paper on was a Doritos commercial from Super Bowl XLII. In a Doritos ‘commercial‚ a man working in his garden becomes suspicious when he sees his Great Dane burying what appears to be the collar of a missing cat. Next thing the man knows he’s staring eye to eye with the pooch‚ who’s realized his master has caught him getting rid of evidence of a heinous crime. To buy his silence the dog slips his owner a bag of Doritos with a note
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suspected of driving a stolen car. In February 1997‚ James Wilson‚ 37‚ an unarmed motorist‚ was kicked and punched by three Hartford‚ Connecticut police officers after a brief chase which ended in front of a Bloomfield‚ Connecticut police station. The beating was so severe that a group of Bloomfield police intervened to stop it. "They saw activity that appeared
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On a crisp fall morning‚ parents lined the school’s circular driveway in Audis‚ BMWs and Land Rovers‚ among other luxury SUVs‚ to drop their high-schoolers off at Detroit Country Day School. Dressed in uniforms—boys in button-down shirts‚ blazers with the school crest‚ khaki or navy dress pants‚ and ties; girls in largely the same garb‚ though without the ties and the option of wearing a skirt—the students entered a lobby adorned with green tiles from the nearby Pewabic Pottery‚ a legendary Detroit
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Women’s Rights Teacher: Mr. Hébert Tina Haibodi Nov. 13th 2012 Ann Lois Romney‚ the wife of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney‚ who ran for president in 2008 and 2012‚ was born on April 16‚ 1949‚ and raised in Bloomfield Hills‚ Michigan‚ with her two brothers.[1] Ann Romney played a key role in the presidential campaign of her husband‚ when trying to appeal to women. 51% of the American population is women; Women are diverse‚ and live intersectional lives. They
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Ferdinand de Saussure describes in his essay‚ "Nature of the Linguistic Sign‚" how a word is more connected to the minds of the speaker and the hearer than to anything else. He describes that the "linguistic sign" as a unit formed equally by the association of a "concept" and a "sound-image." The "sound-image" is what one would call a spoken word‚ something that "signifies." Saussure describes it as "the psychological imprint of the sound‚ the impression that it makes on our senses" (Saussure 832). He
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would be possible. The Course manifests a shift from the search for origins and ideals‚ typical of nineteenth century science‚ to the establishment of systems. The modern notion of system is reflected in the title of the course: General Linguistics. Saussure in this way indicates that the course will be about language in general: not this or that particular language (Chinese or French) and not this or that aspect (phonetics or semantics). A general linguistics would be impossible by empirical means because
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Cited: PAGE * Beowulf‚ Holt‚ Rinehart and Winston "Holt Literature and Language Arts" pg. 21-28‚ 33-38 A Harcourt Education company copyright 2003. * Bloomfield‚ Morton W. "The Concept of the Hero in the Early Middle Ages." Concepts of the Hero in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance". Eds. Norman T. Burns & Christopher J. Reagan. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1975 * Wife of Bath ’s Tale‚
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time in the 19th century and then reappeared in the second half of the 20th century‚ when it grew to become one of the most popular approaches in academic fields concerned with the analysis of language‚ culture‚ and society. The work of Ferdinand de Saussure concerning linguistics is generally considered to be a starting point of 20th century structuralism. The term "structuralism" itself appeared in the works of French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss‚ and gave rise‚ in France‚ to the "structuralist
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