structural linguistics
1Structural Linguistics — is an approach to linguistics originating from the work of Swiss Linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. In Course in General Linguistics, published posthumously in 1916, Saussure stressed examining language as a static system of interconnected units. He …
2structural linguistics — [with sing. v.] n. language study based on the assumptions that a language is a coherent system of formal units and that the task of linguistic study is to inquire into the nature of those units and their peculiar systematic arrangement, without… …
3structural linguistics — noun linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse • Syn: ↑structuralism • Hypernyms: ↑linguistics * * * ˌstructural linˈguistics 7 [structural linguistics] noun …
4structural linguistics — 1. a usually synchronic approach to language study in which a language is analyzed as an independent network of formal systems, each of which is composed of elements that are defined in terms of their contrasts with other elements in the system.… …
5structural linguistics — plural noun [treated as sing.] the branch of linguistics concerned with language as a system of interrelated structures …
6structural linguistics — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. structural analysis, structure, structuralism; see grammar , language 2 …
7structural linguistics — classification of permanent structures and formations in a language …
8structural linguistics — struc′tural linguis′tics n. ling. a usu. synchronic approach to language study in which a language is analyzed as a network of formal systems, each composed of elements defined in terms of their contrasts with other elements in the system …
9Linguistics — is the scientific study of language, encompassing a number of sub fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure (grammar) and the study of meaning (semantics). Grammar encompasses morphology (the formation and… …
10Structural anthropology — is based on Claude Levi Strauss s idea that people think about the world in terms of binary opposites such as high and low, inside and outside, person and animal, life and death and that every culture can be understood in terms of these opposites …
