自然科学和人文科学Methodologically.docVIP

Structuralism Structuralism is a mode of thinking and a method of analysis practiced in 20th-century social sciences and humanities. 自然科学和人文科学Methodologically, it analyzes large-scale systems by examining the relations and functions of the smallest constituent elements of such systems, which range from human languages and cultural practices to folktales and literary texts. In the field of linguistics the structuralist work of Ferdinand de Saussure, undertaken just prior to World War I, long served as model and inspiration. Characteristic of structuralist thinking, Saussures linguistic inquiry