Week 4: Structuralism

(Phenomenology and Existentialism are good links....check written notes).


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* Check out 'Teach Yourself Postmodernism,' Chapter 5.

- Founder...Sasseure 1885-1913. interested in language.

- a philosophical approach built on linguistics.

- published in 1915.

- sees language as a structure...differs from previous 3.

- not interested in the history of words.

- more interested in 'libel.'

- everything around us is a sign.

- Semiology- a study of these signs.

- everything in the world is a sign.


Label...Signifier-' Chairness.'

...Signified- 'Chair.'


Page 92 of Roland Barthes- comes under semiotics.


Post Structuralism.

- looks at how feminist look at language is 'gendered.'

- language shaping society.

- Post structuralists say that there is no such thing as "truth."

- Being more democratising and inclusive.

- turns into a freeform.

deconstruction...Jacques Derrida.

talks about deconstructing 'signs.'