Saussure and structuralist linguistics in Europe

Puech, Christian; Sanders, Carol

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“…The distinguished French thinker and semiotician Roland Barthes innovated and developed semiotics on the basis of Saussure's structuralist theory and the doctrine of linguistic semiotics. The idea of the structuralist theory is that cultural meaning is produced and reproduced through various practices, phenomena, and activities as ideational systems [6]. The core of Roland Barthes' semiotic theory is that there are two levels of ideational systems.…”

Section: To Develop Physical Bookstores As Cultural Symbolsmentioning

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The Survival of Physical Bookstore Under Digital Transformation

Li¹,

Shi²

2022

Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)

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Physical bookstores are gradually shifting from traditional book retailing to a cultural space that fulfills intellectual, emotional, and aesthetic requirements. However, there is increasing concern over how physical bookstores can transform and upgrade themselves with the assistance of technologies to match the current need of readers. This article uses textual analysis to identify the current situation of entity bookstores' management. The theoretical framework includes symbolic value, Goffman's frontstage and backstage theory, and Joshua Meyrowitz's medium theory. This study has examined the survival of the physical bookstores through different aspects. Online bookshops can provide good quality goods at low prices while offline bookstores can offer a wide range of cultural entertainment in which readers can engage. However, physical bookstores still face a series of problems, including interior design, readers' multiple requirements, and no subsidies. The insights gained from this study may be of practical significance for the transformation of physical bookstores.

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confidence: 99%

The Survival of Physical Bookstore Under Digital Transformation

Li¹,

Shi²

2022

Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)

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“…It is outside the scope of this article to sketch the complex diffusion of Saussurean ideas throughout the various academic disciplines, but it is safe to say his linguistics was largely ignored by his home field in both the United States and France (Dosse, 1997: 45; Falk, 2004: 122–123). 18 By the time linguists and historians of linguistics began a “return to Saussure” in the 1960s and 1970s, it was unavoidably “mediated by ‘general structuralism’” (Puech, 2004: 127). Furthermore, as Saussure diffused first to the east (Russia and Prague), then north (Copenhagen), then west (New York) – primarily through the Russian linguist Roman Jakobson (Falk, 2004: 114; Johnson, 2003: 172) – before finally reemerging in France, the components of the Saussurean model were “dismembered” in piecemeal attempts to overcome epistemological and rhetorical obstacles (Angenot, 1984).…”

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Becoming a dominant misinterpreted source: The case of Ferdinand de Saussure in cultural sociology

Stoltz

2019

Journal of Classical Sociology

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Cultural analysts in sociology typically cite the work of Ferdinand de Saussure to motivate a narrow theory of meaning. In so doing, sociologists incorrectly attribute to Saussure (1) the postulate that meaning is arbitrary; (2) the idea that signs gain meaning only through relations of opposition to other signs; (3) the view that there is an isomorphic correspondence between linguistic signs and all cultural units of analysis, ergo culture is fundamentally arbitrary; and finally (4) the idea that he offers a Durkheimian theory of culture (i.e. Saussure was a follower of Durkheim). Saussure’s project, rather, was specific to linguistics, and mainly one of theoretical and methodological clarification regarding phonology. Saussure never intended his analytical model of phonology to apply to the real operation of meaning in general, as done by contemporary interpreters and, furthermore, never argued that meaning is arbitrary.

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Consecutive Interpreting: From Language to Communication

Kozin

2017

Consecutive Interpreting

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Saussure and structuralist linguistics in Europe

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The Survival of Physical Bookstore Under Digital Transformation

The Survival of Physical Bookstore Under Digital Transformation

Becoming a dominant misinterpreted source: The case of Ferdinand de Saussure in cultural sociology

Consecutive Interpreting: From Language to Communication

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