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The Structuralist (Structuralism)

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.

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