Structuralism can be regarded as a generalized research method with many different changes. Broadly speaking, structuralism tries to explore how a cultural meaning is expressed through what kind of relationship (that is, structure). In the second half of the 20th century and the 21st century, it has become one of the most commonly used research methods to analyze language, culture and society.

According to the structural theory, the generation and re-creation of a cultural meaning is to find out the deep structure of how meaning is made and re-made in a culture through various practices, phenomena and activities as an ideographic system. A structuralist's research object will be as different as food preparation and dining etiquette, religious ceremonies, games, literary and non-literary texts and other forms of entertainment.

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Linguistics:

Saussure is the originator of the reappearance of structuralism in the 20th century, because his lecture notes were published by students in 19 16 and named "A Course in General Linguistics", in which he paid attention to the language system rather than speech or language use. He called it "theoretical semiotics"-"semiotics is the science of studying various symbols under the existing social structure."

He believes that language symbols are composed of signifier and meaning. This is very different from the previous method of paying attention to the relationship between words and things. In Saussure's linguistics, * * * temporality is consistent with wholeness and systematicness, so the research method of * * * temporality is an inevitable extension of wholeness and systematicness.

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