structural linguistics

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n. (used with a sing. verb)

1. A method of synchronic linguistic analysis employing structuralism, especially in contrasting those formal structures, such as phonemes or sentences, that make up systems, such as phonology or syntax.

2. A school of linguistics developed in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s that advocated and employed such a method.

structural linguistics

(Linguistics) (functioning as singular) a descriptive approach to a synchronic or diachronic analysis of language on the basis of its structure as reflected by irreducible units of phonological, morphological, and semantic features

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structural linguistics - linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse

structuralism

linguistics - the scientific study of language

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Jakobson Lacan linguistics Saussure structuralism			Everett writes simply and persuasively about language, but he lacks the wit and felicitous gift for analogy that enables someone like Pinker to bring structural linguistics to life. Lost for words in the Amazon by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk However, averse to traditional notional definitions, the instructors preferred structuralist definitions much like Lester (345) By borrowing methodologies from structural linguistics for teaching parts of speech we have created a slightly different kind of traditional grammar--a slightly less traditional, traditional grammar. Grammar for teachers: attitudes and aptitudes by Hoffman, Melvin J. / Academic Exchange Quarterly Diller, Karl 1971 Generative grammar, structural linguistics and language teaching. Age and the second language lexicon by Singleton, David / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies			Strophiolate Strophiole strophoid strophulus stroppiness stroppy stroud Strouding Strout strove strow Strowl Strown stroy struck struck jury struck measure Strucken structural structural anthropology structural formula structural gene structural genomics structural iron structural isomer structural linguistics structural member structural psychology Structural shape structural sociology structural steel structural unemployment structuralism structuralist structuralize structurally structure structured structured message text structured programming Structureless Structurist Strude strudel struggle struggle for existence Struggler struggling Struldbrugism Strull strum			Structural Inflation Structural Influence Coefficient Structural Informatics Group structural information structural inspection Structural instrument Structural instrument Structural instrument Structural insulated panel Structural insulated panel Structural Insulated Panel Association Structural Insulated Panels Structural Integration Structural Integrity Checking Structural integrity field Structural Integrity Program Structural Interior Design structural iron structural isomer structural isomer structural isomerism structural isomerism structural isomerism Structural isomers Structural isomers Structural Join Index Hierarchy Structural Joint European Project structural level structural lighting element structural lightweight concrete structural linguistics structural low structural lumber structural m's structural m's structural m's structural m's Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Structural Maintenance And Repair Team Structural Maintenance of Chromosome 3 Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes 1 Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes 4 Like 1 Structural markers Structural markers Structural markers Structural materials Structural Materials Centre Structural mechanics Structural Mechanics In-Reactor Technology Structural Mechanics of Ships structural member Structural Memory in Metals Structural Mode Control System Structural Mode Interaction Structural Model Structural Model Structural Model Structural Narcotics Detection Service Structural Nested Failure Time Model Structural Network Analysis Program Structural Nonlinear Analysis Workspace

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