Jonathan Javier Martinez Vazquez S00679129

Dr. Evelyn Lugo English 126

Structuralism is the name that is given to a wide range of discourses that studies underlying structures of signification.

This occurs wherever there is a meaningful event or in the practice of some meaningful action. Signifying practices

Meaningful event writing or reading a text getting married Having a discussion over jersey shore

Any document or any exchange that can be documented.

Text

All texts, all meaningful events, and all signifying practices can be analyzed for their underlying structures.

26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913 Swiss linguist, one of the fathers of 20th-century

linguistics. Developed a branch of linguistics called

"Structural Linguistics. Theory was still at a developmental stage. The reconstruction of his lecture courses can be

found in The Course in General Linguistics. The analysis focuses not on the use of language,

but rather on the underlying system of language. This approach examines how the elements of

language relate to each other in the present, synchronically rather than diachronically.

Diachronically (Historical) linguistics  The study of language change.

to describe the history of speech communities

to study the history of words

Synchronically Of or relating to the study of phenomena,

such as linguistic features, or of events of a particular time, without reference to their historical context.

SIGNIFIER SIGNIFIED

What you see Hear Touch taste or smell Audible and visible

signs verbal signs Ex:

A mental picture of whatever

Ex:

The Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss

The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan

The philosopher and historian Michel Foucault

The Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser

Anthropology The study of humanity. It has origins in the natural

sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences.

Sociology  Is the study of society.

Psychology Is the science of mind and behavior.

Literary criticism Is the study, evaluation, and interpretation

of literature.

Architecture Planning evolved around the middle of the 20th

century.

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