Publication details
Strukturalismus a sémiotika
| Title in English | Structuralism and semiotics |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Convinced that structuralism offers a positive programme for the future, the author approaches the delimitation of the terms "structuralism" and "semiotics". It is because in mainstream views these terms tend to overlap, and further, they are often talked about referring to a few symbolic book titles without an actual understanding of these works and their context. The centennial history of structuralism can only be approached as vast corpora of specialized texts collected according to explicit criteria. The main criterion is a certain epistemological stance on researched facts, other criteria include specific approaches to the bifacial linguistic sign; everything is shown in detail on several structuralist centres and schools. There is little use in trying to delimit structuralism and semiotics. Rather, structuralist experience should be shared wherever possible. The origins of structuralism are linguistic. Let's understand structural linguistics as semiotics of texts, written and spoken, seen as cultural-historical speech events (linguistics is by nature philological, even hermeneutical), and let's support semiotics where our task is to explain cultural-historical events that are no less complex than the – purely, or mainly – speech ones. Overlaps between the speech and the non-speech are inevitable – and that is a good thing. |
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