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The Sign
The Poetry of Language
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Structuralism 101
True or False?
100
The two parts of the sign.
What are the signifier and the signified?
100
Two opposite poles, according to Roman Jakobson, of language.
What are metaphor and metonymy?
100
An act of speech that does something merely than just say something.
What is a performative utterances?
100
The center of structuralism.
What is the structure?
100
The text is a function of the individual.
What is false?
200
The nature of the sign.
What is arbitrary?
200
The type of writing associated with metaphor.
What is poetry?
200
The two terms most often used to categorize statements.
What are true and false?
200
The base concept of Structuralist thought.
What is the sign?
200
All statements are performative.
What is true?
300
Individual utterances of language.
What is parole?
300
Roman Jakobson's term for the principle of similarity in language.
What is metaphor?
300
The two terms used by J.L. Austin to categorize performative utterances.
What are felicitous and infelicitous?
300
Saussure's term used by Structuralist to describe the preexisting structures found in all texts.
What is langue?
300
Structuralism focuses on the referent.
What is false?
400
It is synonymous with the term signifier.
What is the sound-image?
400
The pole of language that describes the concept contiguity.
What is metonymy?
400
Two of five ways performative utterances can be infelicitous.
What are breach of convention, inappropriate circumstance, insincerity, lack of authority, and misunderstanding?
400
For a Structuralist, it is produced by language.
What is reality?
400
There is no originality. All writing is a reworking of langue.
What is true?
500
Type of relation between all similar concepts connected in the mind but not present in the articulated sentence.
What is associative?
500
Literary school Roman Jakobson associates with metaphor.
What is Romanticism?
500
The two background conditions performative utterances rely heavily on.
What are convention (tradition) and context?
500
The deep structures found in all texts.
What are universal patterns?
500
Structuralism focuses on synchronic study.
What is true?