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This 8 page paper examines the way in which Levi Strauss utilizes Ferdinand de Saussure's structural linguistics to analyse myth. The paper considers the way this is approached in modern society with a range of ideas and alternative approaches and demonstrates how Levi-Strauss used the example of Oedipus to present his analysis method. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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of twentieth century structuralism, his ideas were initially communicated in a course he held in Geneva and his ideas were such that the overturned the existing views of the Gunman
philogy and created a new foundation for an approach to linguistics as well as influencing other subjects such as sociology and anthropology. De Saussure was within the movement that had
been looking to the origins of European languages in the Asiatic region. Saussure rejects the positivist perspective that language as a simple correspondence with the physical world. He argues that
words should be considered as an existence in relationship to each other prior to their relationship with a physical object. Her also rejects ideas that languages that are closer to
the original language are superior, as well as showing that borrowing directly between languages is not the only form of the way linguistic similarities develop as there may be similarities
between languages and their syntax where there is not any commonality in their origin or even exposure to similar influences. De Saussures work has gone on to influence
many others, including Levi Strauss. Levi Straus was influenced heavily by both De Saussure and Barthes. Levi Strauss was not a linguist, but an anthropologist and he made use of
the theorist in his studies, including kinship and myths. The idea of Saussures that "Language (langue), on the contrary to speech (langage),
is a self-contained whole and a principle of classification. As soon as we give language first place among the facts of speech, we introduce a natural order into a
mass that lends itself to no other classification the norm of all other manifestations of speech" (Saussure, 1959) is taken on board by Levi-Strauss and then expanded, language is not
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