structural linguistics

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• Structural 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 …   Wikipedia

• structural 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… …   English World dictionary

• structural 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 …   Useful english dictionary

• structural 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.… …   Universalium

• structural linguistics — plural noun [treated as sing.] the branch of linguistics concerned with language as a system of interrelated structures …   English new terms dictionary

• structural linguistics — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. structural analysis, structure, structuralism; see grammar , language 2 …   English dictionary for students

• structural linguistics — classification of permanent structures and formations in a language …   English contemporary dictionary

• structural 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 …   From formal English to slang

• Linguistics — 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… …   Wikipedia

• Structural 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 …   Wikipedia

• structural — [struk′chər əl] adj. 1. of, having, associated with, or characterized by structure [structural complexity] 2. used in or suitable for construction, as of buildings [structural steel] 3. of, or in accordance with, structural linguistics 4. Geol.… …   English World dictionary