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    Summary

    Structuralism by Ferdinand de
    Saussure

    By:

    Argo Dhea Galuh Kirana Ardyny - 20247470051

    DEPARTMENT OF ART AND LANGUAGE


    INDRAPRASTA PGRI UNIVERSITY

    2024
    Summary

    Structuralism is a theoretical approach that emphasizes the interconnectedness and


    relationships between elements within a system. In context linguistics, structuralism focuses
    on analysing language as a system of interrelated signs. The founder of structuralism is
    Ferdinand de Saussure.

    Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist renowned for his contributions to linguistics
    and language. He is considered one of the founders of modern linguistics and has influenced
    many thinkers and linguists around the world. His key finding is the differentiation between
    Langue (the abstract language system shared by a community) and Parole (individual speech
    acts). This distinction emphasized the importance of studying language as a social phenomenon
    rather than as a collection of individual utterances.

    In the beginning of 20s century, Saussure believed that the research of language was not
    only etymologically speaking but also had its own structure and was a system of science. In
    structure concept, there are syntagmatic relation (the relation between grammatical element
    within a sentence) and pragmatic relation (the relation between paradigm elements within a
    sentence). On the other side, Saussure’s language’s view as system of science later, we know
    it as the study of signs or semiotics. Saussure said that signs consist of two things which are
    signifier and signified. Signifier is the object or the word while signified is the concept.

    He also said that language was a well-defined object in the heterogeneous mass of speech
    facts. It can be localized in the limited segment of the speaking-circuit where an auditory image
    became associated with a concept. Language was something that can be studied separately.
    Even dead languages can be easily assimilated. Whereas speech is heterogeneous, language is
    homogeneous. It is a system of signs in which the only essential thing is the union of meanings
    and sound-images. Language is concrete, no less so than speaking; and this is a help in our
    study to of it.

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