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| Structuralism: Structuralism in philosophy is an approach that analyzes phenomena by examining their underlying structures and organizing principles. It emphasizes the relationships and interdependencies between elements rather than their individual qualities, aiming to uncover fundamental patterns and principles. Structuralists believe that these structures can be found in all aspects of human experience, from language to culture to society. See also F. de Saussure, Cl. Lévi-Strauss, M. Foucault._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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John Lyons on Structuralism - Dictionary of Arguments
I 52 Structuralism/Linguistics/Structuralistic/Lyons: Thesis: Each language is a system of relationships (more precisely: a group of interrelated systems whose elements - sounds, words, etc. - have no validity regardless of the relationships of equivalence and contrast prevailing between them. >Equivalence, >Opposition/Saussure, >Systems, >Words, >Phonemes. I 76 Syntagmatic/paradigmatic: can be different relations, depending on whether "possible occurrence" is limited to meaningful contexts or limited to certain utterances. >Acceptability, >Syntagma/Lyons. Content/meaning/grammar/semantics/Lyons: the distinction syntagmatic/paradigmatic allows us to distinguish between grammatical and meaningful sentences without speaking of "semantic" units (meaning). >Terminology/Lyons, >Content, >Meaning, >Sense, >Meaningful/meaningless. I 76 Syntagmatic/paradigmatic/Lyons: it is pointless to look at linguistic units separately from syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships. I 77 Structuralism: this is a formulation of the structuralist principle that each linguistic unit occupies a certain place within a system of relationships. You cannot define the elements first and then the possible combinations. The elements are determined by simultaneously taking into account their syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships. >Method._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ly II John Lyons Semantics Cambridge, MA 1977 Lyons I John Lyons Introduction to Theoretical Lingustics, Cambridge/MA 1968 German Edition: Einführung in die moderne Linguistik München 1995 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-16