structural linguistics

Conventional sociolinguistics draws on the same ideological vision of the world as structural linguistics and societal functionalism, says Tirvassen, in that its basic unit of analysis is the system: language, language varieties, and even the speech community conceived as systems.

He received a PhD in Structural Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1961.

However, it is also true that the increase in ECLA levels is statistically significant mostly because of the increase in the linguistic/sociolinguistic component of the survey: students with introductory linguistic training seem to experience a statistically significant improvement in their knowledge of structural linguistics and sociolinguistics concepts during that semester, and they maintain this knowledge.

Structural linguistics had entailed the isolation of the study of language from its relationships with mind and world through the classical distinction made by Saussure between langue and parole.

The Poststructuralist Feminist criticism borrowing largely from structural linguistics as propounded by the likes of M.A.K.

As implied in the phrase "visual language," Atac employs a method of visual analysis inspired by linguistics--specifically, the tradition of structural linguistics initiated in 1916 by Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de linguistique generale.

Mythologies might be a distinct branch of knowledge, like poetics, rhetorics, physics open for technical analysis, one such methodology being provided by Levi-Strauss on the model of structural linguistics. But what new method does the author actually provide excepting the view that myth can be studied both as poetical fiction and performance speech act that belong to two different branches of knowledge--poetics and pragmatics?

From macroeconomics to technology studies to structural linguistics to philosophy and cultural theory, he samples representative works to outline the history and contemporary characteristics of each of the five forces shaping postsecondary education industry.

"I think you're being subtly insulting," he suggests after Philip turns his fascination with structural linguistics to Braham's choice of words.

The chapters that follow pursue a fascinating zigzag path that leads us through John Mitchell's "ley lines" and Atlantis (an atemporal topos closely allied to that of /Egypt); the "reactualization" of Giordano Bruno's worldview in the work of Dame Frances Yates and the consequent "magical" aspect of her comparative methodology; a comparison of Bruno's epistemology with that of structural linguistics; a decidedly eccentric but nevertheless brilliant reading of John Dee's Hieroglyphic Monad in terms of the ritual ontology of Japanese Noh theatre ("We need a new perspective," writes Lehrich); and an account of Athanasius Kirchner as a precursor of the comparative and structural tradition.

Psychoanalytic theories, Marxism, structural linguistics and other alleged or actual sciences have also been used to make scientific claims for literary study.