☆ ★ Structuralism ★ ☆

Our Second lecture with Bill...
And the second lecture that has made no sense whatsoever.

We saw alot of photos of Bill with famous people, then we watched a large amount of pointless and disturbing clips one after another without any link to one another.. not that some of them weren't still sortof funny.. I'm just not entirely sure what I learnt from it?

Wordnetweb (2010) describes Structuralism as:

• linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse
• an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena
• a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals

Structuralism has something to do with semiotics but most of the websites I've found don't really explain it too well so it may forever be a mystery to me?


This is as much as I can make out;

• The Signifier: The way the word sounds or looks on paper.

(ie: hearing someone say 'paper')

• The Signified: The actual meaning of the word.

(ie: an actual piece of paper)

I'll finish off this post with an intertextual reference: