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Linguistic (De-)Constructions of Me
anings and Subjectivities
1. Structuralism--Basic Concepts
2. Structuralist Reading of Narratives
3. Semiotics and "The Myth Today"
4. From Structuralism to Poststructuralism:
Binary Opposition & Deconstruction
Structuralism: Introduction
A. In Chinese Philosophy
言者,所以在意,得意而忘言。〈莊子.外
物〉得兔忘蹄、得魚忘筌、得意忘言
王弼說:「言者象之蹄也,象者意之筌。…
…言者所以明象,得象而忘言。象者所以存
意,得意而忘象。」 ( reference﹚
語言(言、象 : 象卦﹐ symbols?﹚ 用為做
工具
意: the meanings referred to or
道.
Different Views of Language
[ros] Carnation
grass
rose
[doz] (p. of rise)
Different Views of Language
B. Structuralism:
Meanings happen in language.
A rose is a rose, because
-- its phoneme [o] is different from [ai] in [rise];
-- its morpheme [rose] is different that with an extra morphe
me [roses];
Its meaning is determined by the syntax or context it exist
s in ; e.g.
“Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose . . . “
“Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;”
“The pillow rose and floated under her, pleasant as a h
ammock in a light wind. ”
sign = signifier and signified
I am a girl.
a boy,
「公無渡河,公竟渡河,墮河而死,
當奈公何 ? 」
Binary opposition between 公 and 河
; between the speaker ( 女人? ) a
nd 公。
1. 公試著克服河 公被河克服。
2. 公: ( 男﹚人;河:自然
3. Speaker : 試著阻止公;奈何公
(自覺無力,或景仰公 human a
ttempts to conquer the impossible﹚ 。
Practice I:
Cloud
Cube Men Cube
1. Theme:
• gradual loss of nature; (e.g. nature zipped, in snow ball)
• A story of human growth, connections(e,g, human tools; do
ubling actions, extinguishing fire) and achievements, which
turns to have more and more conflicts (cigarette, canon).
• Form:
• Human beings presented as cubes so that
1. Humans and their lives are simplified and de-naturalized –just
a group of signs forming some patterns;
2. Humans with layers;
3. Merging of humans and objects (e.g. tea box; camera eye; bird
becoming one layer of a cube)
4. Background music –light and beautiful, but can be militarist so
ngs, too.
From New Criticism to Structuralism: Search for “the
common” or the universal
Form Structure: basic pattern
an entity with interrelated parts.