Posted by: shyne17 on: April 3, 2008
It could be unusual to
analyze social events,
by breaking down mental processes
into the most basic components.
He used the binary opposition.
He emphasizes on the
systematic interrelationships
among the elements of any human activity.
Examines the abstract codes
and conventions in the social
production of meanings.
How words can mean and what they mean
through signs
between the signifier and the signified.
His activities are as diverse
as food preparation,
religious rites or games,
literary and non-literary passages.
Every form of entertainment,
is studied to discover the deep structures
by which meaning is produced
and reproduced within a culture.
So wide ranging.
He focused on the things
in the world that the words designate,
he emphasizes on the system of signs,
and their differences,
rather than on the individual signs
themselves.
He rejects the traditional impression
that literature reflects reality
or it expresses author’s meaning.
A very unconventional man,
a kind of man that
will improve the way of living
through his study and
awareness in the
importance of language.