Structuralism in language

    • [DOC File]'Reflections on Structuralism and Scientific Explanation'

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      Structuralism is evidently a way, or style, of reconstructing scientific theories. ... Indeed, the very idea that all theories should, ideally, be expressible in first-order language was a considerable hindrance to answering these particular questions. Thus, the extreme difficulty, if not impossibility, of doing this for theories of science ...


    • [DOC File]HEHMENEU7ICS AND STRUCTURALISM; TRUTH AND MEANING

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      The prime example of such demotion is: James Barr's The Semantics of Biblical Language (Oxford, 1961). Structuralism can also help us appreciate what redaction critics have been trying to get at, namely the way in which narrative can tell us not merely what happened but also give to the happening a powerful theological/ hermeneutical significance that interfaces with Biblical doctrinal instruction, without driving an ontological wedge between language…


    • [DOC File]Category Theory: The Language of Mathematics*

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      Finally, I argue that category theory, seen as the language of mathematics, provides a framework for mathematical structuralism. Category Theory As A Foundation Before taking up the question of whether, and in what sense, category theory can be said to provide a foundation for mathematics, it is first necessary to provide an account of what we ...


    • [DOC File]Semiotics - Saussure

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      Oversimplifying, structuralism tends to assume a 'depth model' - in other words we can probe behind a text to find the truth and in doing so somehow stand outside language, for example using the 'metalanguages' of linguistic, sociological or philosophical analysis.


    • [DOC File]HZT4UE – Theory of Knowledge

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      UNIT 4: LANGUAGE . 4.4 Structuralism. Structuralism (or Semiotics) Structuralism owes its methodological genesis to the work of Ferdinand de Saussure, a Swiss linguist who was the first to emphasize the priority of linguistic structure in the scientific study of language.


    • [DOC File]Structuralism

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      Saussure: “Language is a system of inter-dependent terms in which the value of each term results solely from the simultaneous presence of others” (textbook: 969) -- Two dimensions of language— a sign is always in paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations with other signs.


    • [DOC File]NEW CRITICISM

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      In this respect, the New Criticism exhibits many similarities to STRUCTURALISM, just as it had an impact on the development of the French nouvelle critique and later, structuralist literary criticism as exemplified in the early work of ROLAND BARTHES. ... Eliot suggests that there is a unique experience to which the language of the poem ...


    • Immigration Structuralism -- DRAFT

      The theory of immigration structuralism that I advance here takes a fundamentally different tack. Among other things, it treats possible failings along the separation-of-powers dimension as a reason for insisting upon preemption doctrine’s conventional application.


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      Structuralism and Saussure. ... In language, for instance, structuralists (like Saussure) the units are words (or, actually, the 31 phonemes which make all the sounds of words in English) and the rules are the forms of grammar which order words. In different languages the grammar rules are different, as are the words, but the structure is still ...


    • [DOC File]Some Elements of Structuralism and its Application to ...

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      Language-use relating to various social topics or areas of engagement has become known as "discourse." Although "discourse" is a term more prevalent in post-structuralist thinking, it is of its nature a structuralist development. III. Structuralism and literature. See my summary of Gerard Genette's "Structuralism and Literary Criticism" for ...


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