CMN 2173 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Binary Opposition

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 2173
• Professor: Dina Salha

Document Summary

Basic assumptions: we can discern underlying structures behind the often fluctuating and changing appearance of social ralities. Things that appear to us as discrete entities are the artifacts products of relationships of structures what appears to us solid, normal is in fact a relation between these underline structures. First formulations of structuralism were in the work of ferdinand de saussure (1857 - 1913) Book: the course of general linguistics (published after his death). De saussure acknowledge that language gives particularity to each speaker, culture, and so forth, but this is not its singularity. His point of view is that everyone is a way or another understands one another. Looking for the common base for a reciprocal comprehension. His idea was that idea that language is something that has rules and that there is the difference between what he called language and speech.