Structuralism

Dominique Willems
Table of contents

In a celebrated text, Lévi-Strauss (1958: 306) delineated the object of the structural sciences as “those phenomena which display the features of a system”, i.e. each complex from which one element cannot be modified without causing modifications in all other elements. As their instrument, he proposed the construction of models.

Full-text access is restricted to subscribers. Log in to obtain additional credentials. For subscription information see Subscription & Price.

References

Apresjan, J.D.
1966 Analyse distributionnelle des significations et champs sémantiques structurés. Langages 1: 44–74. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
——
1973 Eléments sur les idées et les méthodes de la linguistique structurale contemporaine. Dunod.Google Scholar
Barthes, R.
1966 Introduction à l’analyse structurale des récits. Communications 8: 1–27. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Bendix, E.H.
1966 Componential analysis of general vocabulary. Indiana University Press.Google Scholar
Benveniste, E.
1966 Problèmes de linguistique générale, 2 vols. Gallimard.  BoPGoogle Scholar
Bloomfield, L.
1933 Language. Holt, Rinehart & Winston.  BoPGoogle Scholar
Boas, F.
1911 Handbook of American Indian languages, vol. 1. USGPO.Google Scholar
Bremond, C.
1973 La logique du récit. Seuil.Google Scholar
Corneille, J.P.
1976 La linguistique structurale. Larousse.Google Scholar
Dressler, W.
1978 Current trends in textlinguistics. De Gruyter. DOI logo  BoPGoogle Scholar
Ducrot, O.
1968 Qu’est-ce que le structuralisme?, vol. 1. Seuil.Google Scholar
Firth, J.R.
1957 Papers in linguistics 1934–1951. Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Gleason, H.A.
1955 An introduction to descriptive linguistics. Holt, Rinehart & Winston.Google Scholar
Greimas, A.J.
1966 Sémantique structurale. Larousse.Google Scholar
Guillaume, G.
1964 Langage et science du langage. Nizet.Google Scholar
Harris, Z.H.
1951 Methods in structural linguistics. University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
——
1952 Discourse analysis. Language 28: 1–30. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Hjelmslev, L.
1953 Prolegomena to a theory of language. Johns Hopkins University Press.Google Scholar
——
1959 Essais linguistiques. Minuit.Google Scholar
Von Humboldt, W.
1822 Ueber das Entstehen der grammatischen Formen und ihrer Einfluss auf die Ideen.Google Scholar
Jakobson, R.
1962 Selected writings. Mouton.  BoPGoogle Scholar
——
1973 Questions de poétique. Seuil.Google Scholar
Joos, M.
1958 Readings in linguistics. American Council of Learned Societies.Google Scholar
Katz, J. & J. Fodor
1964 The structure of a semantic theory. Language 39: 170–210. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Kerbrat-Orecchioni, C.
1979 De la sémantique lexicale à la sémantique de l’énonciation. Presses University de Lille.Google Scholar
Lévi-Strauss, C.
1958 Anthropologie structurale. Plon.Google Scholar
Longacre, R.
1972 Hierarchy and universality of discourse constituents in New Guinea languages. Georgetown University Press.  BoPGoogle Scholar
Longacre, R. & F. Woods
1977–1978 Discourse grammar, 3 vols. Summer Institute of Linguistics.  BoPGoogle Scholar
Lounsbury, F.G.
1956 A semantic analysis of Pawnee kinship usage. Language 32: 158–194. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Lyons, J.
1963 Structural semantics. Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Martinet, A.
1960 Eléments de linguistique générale. Colin.  BoPGoogle Scholar
Pike, K.
1967 Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior. Mouton. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Pottier, B.
1964 Vers une sémantique moderne. Travaux de Linguistique et de Littérature 1: 107–138.Google Scholar
——
1968 Champ sémantique, champ d’expérience et structure lexicale. Zeitschrift für Französische Sprache (Probleme der Semantik) 1968: 37–41.Google Scholar
Robin, R.
1986 L’Analyse du discours entre la linguistique et les sciences humaines. Langages 81.Google Scholar
Robins, R.H.
1964 General linguistics. Longman.  BoPGoogle Scholar
Sapir, E.
1921 Language. Harcourt, Brace & World.  BoPGoogle Scholar
De Saussure, F.
1916 Cours de linguistique générale. Payot.Google Scholar
Tesnière, L.
1959 Eléments de syntaxe structurale. Klincksieck.Google Scholar
Todorov, T.
1969 Grammaire du ‘Décameron’. Mouton.Google Scholar
Trubetzkoy, N.S.
1939 Grundzüge der Phonologie. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.Google Scholar
Vachek, J.
1964 A Prague School reader in linguistics. Indiana University Press.  BoPGoogle Scholar
Ullmann, S.
1962 Semantics. Blackwell.  BoPGoogle Scholar
Weinreich, U.
1963 On the semantic structure of language. In J. Greenberg (ed.) Universals of language: 142–216. MIT Press.  BoPGoogle Scholar
——
1970 Explorations in semantic theory. In T. Sebeok (ed.) Current trends in linguistics, vol. 3: 395–477. Mouton.Google Scholar
Wells, R.S.
1948 Immediate constituents. Language 24: 168–177. DOI logoGoogle Scholar