Can Reading Make You Happier? – The New Yorker
We draw on the same brain networks when we’re reading stories and when we’re trying to guess at another person’s feelings.
Tag: poststructuralism
Structuralism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This approach examines how the elements of language relate to each other in the present, synchronically rather than diachronically.
Structuralism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
In Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics (written by Saussure’s colleagues after his death and based on student notes), the analysis focuses not on the use of language (called “parole,” or speech), but rather on the underlying system of language (called “langue”).
This approach examines how the elements of language relate to each other in the present, synchronically rather than diachronically. Saussure argued that linguistic signs were composed of two parts, a “signifier” (the “sound pattern” of a word, either in mental projection—as when we silently recite lines from a poem to ourselves—or in actual, physical realization as part of a speech act) and a “signified” (the concept or meaning of the word).
structuralism: art as not autonomous
Structuralists view society and its rules as expressions of deep structures, often binary codes, that express our primary natures.
structuralism: art as not autonomous.
Structuralists view society and its rules as expressions of deep structures, often binary codes, that express our primary natures. A systematic study of such codes is semiotics, which was later hijacked by Poststructuralists as evidence that language alone provides a true reality.