By Jonathan Culler
A vintage survey of structuralist literary feedback mixed with a survey approximately how English and American feedback could gain advantage from its lessons.
content material: e-book hide; identify; Contents; PREFACE TO THE ROUTLEDGE CLASSICS version; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; The Linguistic beginning; the advance of a mode: Examples; Jakobson's Poetic Analyses; Greimas and Structural Semantics; Linguistic Metaphors in feedback; Literary Competence; conference and Naturalization; Poetics of the Lyric; Poetics of the unconventional; 'Beyond' Structuralism: Tel Quel; end: Structuralism and the characteristics of Literature; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;
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These the linguistic foundation distributional relations are of two kinds. Syntagmatic relations bear on the possibility of combination: two items may be in a relation of reciprocal or non-reciprocal implication, compatibility or incompatibility. Paradigmatic relations, which determine the possibility of substitution, are especially important in the analysis of a system. The meaning of an item depends on the differences between it and other items which might have filled the same slot in a given sequence.
Clearly it is necessary somehow to justify the procedure itself. (Chomsky, ‘A Transformational Approach to Syntax’, p. 241) This pertains to structural analyses in any field and should not be forgotten. A discovery procedure may be a useful heuristic device, but, however well defined, it does not guarantee the correctness or relevance of its results. They must be tested, howsoever they were obtained: ‘a linguistic description is a hypothesis, and like hypotheses in other sciences it is of no direct relevance to its truth how it has been arrived at’ (Householder, Linguistic Speculations, p.
Length of skirts might be an important differential feature in the fashion system of a culture while the material from which they were made was not. The contrast between bright and dark colours might carry a general social meaning while the difference between dark blue and brown did not. The ethnologist, isolating those distinctions by which garments become signs, is attempting to reconstruct the system of features and norms which members of that society have assimilated. RELATIONS In separating the functional from the non-functional in order to reconstruct the underlying system, one is interested not so much in the properties of individual objects or actions as in the differences between them which the system employs and endows with significance.
