My Blog on Structuralism

Structuralism is theory focused upon the structure of human expression. It is a complex intellectual movement that first established its importance in France in 1950 and 1960. A simple explanation of structuralism it that it understands phenomena using the metaphor of language. That is we can understand language as a system or structure which defines it self in terms of itself.

A method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behavior culture and experience, which focuses on relationship of contrast between elements in conceptual system.
In philosophical way something which behind the truth. Which attack on this meaning structuralism. something behind the world of appearance for example Marxists might argue that we can understand the world by examing the relations of production or some which is very importants fundamentalist. According to Christians that we should kept something in our mind that the world is as a battle of God aginst satan. So it’s hidden agenda but in fact explains the world.

There are many great examples of such struturalists are Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, etc. So we can see that the main theme of these struturalists is their attack on ‘foundationalism’ attacking and thought, ideas in which we can construct a new foundation. All the things emphasize the relatedness of truth, how truth is not something we discover or something around beliefs or can start from but a structure which society invents.

Saussure  was a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study. In the nineteenth century linguistic scholar had mainly been interested in historical aspects of language such as working out the historical development of languages and the connections between them. Saussure concentrated instead of patterns and functions of language in use today with the emphasis on how meanings are maintained and established and how on the function of grammatical structure.



Examples are…..
In Shakespeare’s play boy+ girl or Boy-girl is same (love)
Life= birth, youth, death—structure of life
Book=beginning, middle, end- structure of book.