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Strukturalisme, Post-Strukturalisme Dan Neo- Strukturalisme STRUKTURALISME, POST-STRUKTURALISME DAN NEO- STRUKTURALISME Sannuraini Universitas Hasanuddin A. Structuralism Structuralism in Europe developed in the early 1900s, mainly in France and Russian Empire, in the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and the subsequent Prague, Moscow and Copenhagen schools of linguistics. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, when structural linguistics were facing serious challenges from the likes of Noam Chomsky and thus fading in importance, an array of scholars in the humanities borrowed Saussure's concepts for use in their respective fields of study. Structuralism in literature can provide the way to understand the culture as Rahman & Letlora (2018) stated that Language and culture are two important elements which cannot be separated each other. Language is a medium of communication to acquire the information of culture and others. Communication in daily activity especially in Indonesian tradition which include many expression and idioms in order to strengthen the tradition itself such as ‘maulid nabi’ (Rahman, 2017). Based on Rahman’s research, there is a relation between language and literature. Rahman (2020) stated that literature is an identity which referred to ethno-literature. Literature is a source of learning and entertainment for readers (Rahman, Amir P., & Tammasse, 2019). One of literary work that interesting and has important role in literary research is Shakespeare’s writing as Rahman & Weda (2019) in their research regarding linguistics deviation and rhetoric figures in Shakespeare’s selected plays. The structuralist mode of reasoning has been applied in a diverse range of fields, including anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, economics and architecture. The most prominent thinkers associated with structuralism include Claude Lévi-Strauss, linguist Roman Jakobson, and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. As an intellectual movement, structuralism was initially presumed to be the heir apparent to existentialism. However, by the late 1960s, many of structuralism's basic tenets came under attack from a new wave of predominantly French intellectuals such as the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault, the philosopher Jacques Derrida, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, and the literary critic Roland Barthes. Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Barthes, and Foucault are called "Gang of Four”. Though elements of their work necessarily relate to structuralism. In the 1970s, structuralism was criticized for its rigidity and a historicism. Despite this, many of structuralism's proponents, such as Lacan, continue to assert an influence on continental philosophy and many of the fundamental assumptions of some of structuralism's post- structuralist critic are a continuation of structuralism. Ferdinand de Saussure and The Central Concept of Structural Linguistic 1. Synchronic and Diachronic Synchronic linguistics is one of two main temporal dimensions of language study introduced by Saussure in his “Course in General Linguistics” (1916). It aims at describing a language at the specific point of time. The other is diachronic linguistics, which is the study of language through periods of time in history. The first looks at a snapshot of a language, and the other studies its evolution like a frame of films or movie). For examples, analyzing the word order in a sentence in Old English only would be a study in synchronic linguistics. If you looked at how word order charged in a sentences from Old English to Middle English and now to modern English, that would be a diachronic study. 2. Langue and Parole Langue is a complete system of linguistic signs that allows to configure and determine the use of grammar, phonology and vocabulary. This system is conventionalized according to the communicative needs of a society. In contrast, Parole is the physical manifestation of speech, where through individual use of language (langue) each person creates a particular style that characterizes it in the process of communication in a society. Examples: - I went to Bantimurung Yesterday. (Langue=.have a rule) - Yesterday, I go to Bantimurung. (Parole= automatically) 3. Signifier and Signified Semiotics is concerned with signs and their relationship with objects and meaning. Saussure argued that linguistic signs were composed of two parts a signifier and a signified. Simply put, signifier is the sound associated with or image of something (e.g., a tree), while the signified is the idea of concept of the thing (e.g., the idea of tree). And the sign is the object that combine the signifier and the signified into a meaningful unit. 4. Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Relation Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic relation are introduced by Saussure (1974) to distinguish two kinds of signifier: one concerns positioning (syntagmatic) and the other concerns substitution (paradigmatic). A syntagmatic relationship involves a sequence of signs that together create meaning. A paradigmatic relationship involves signs that can replace each other, usually changing the meaning with the substitution. The words in a sentences are all syntagms and together they form a syntagmatic relationship that creates meaning. If we change the order of syntagm in a sentence it can change the meaning significantly. Examples: - John ate an octopus - An octopus ate John Two sentences using the exact same words (syntagms), but very different meanings because the order (the syntagmatic relationship) of the words changed. Sticking with John and his dinner, John might have a chosen a variety of things to eat besides octopus. He might have chosen beef, eggplant chicken, or pasta for his meal. Each is part of a paradigm of foods or specifically foods John might eat. The items in a paradigm share some kind of function and the paradigm is the set or category they belongs to. Syntagmatic and paradigmatic can be seen as different dimensions of a sign and they are often shown that way as in the following table. The cow jumped over the moon The dog walked around my yard The cat slept under your bed Our hamster ran inside its wheel Their Bird flew through our window Pat’s fish swam in a fishbowl The syntagmatic relationship is seen along the horizontal axis and the paradigmatic relationship is seen along the vertical axis. Start at any row and read across for the syntagmatic relationship. For example “The cow jumped over the moon” (syntagmatic) together for one meaning, but cow could replace with another word in the column (paradigmatic) to form a different sentence with a different meaning such as “the fish jumped over the moon”. Another example, here are a couple of three course meals. The combination salad, salmon, ice cream forms a syntagmatic relationship as does soup, steak, and pie. Salmon and steak have a paradigmatic relationship because one can be substituted for another. Syntagmatic is vertical relationship and Paradigmatic is horizontal relationship. Salad Salmon Ice Cream Soup Steak Pie B. Post- structuralism Post-Structuralism is a late 20th Century movement in philosophy and literary criticism, which is difficult to summarize but which generally defines itself in its opposition to the popular Structuralism movement which preceded it in 1950s and 1960s France. It is closely related to Post-Modernism, although the two concepts are not synonymous. The prefix "post" refers to the fact that many contributors such as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Julia Kristeva were former structuralists who, after abandoning structuralism, became quite critical of it. In direct contrast to structuralism's claims of culturally independent meaning, post- structuralists typically view culture as inseparable from meaning. While post-structuralism is difficult to define or summarize, it can be broadly understood as a body of distinct reactions to structuralism. There are two main reasons for this difficulty. First, it rejects definitions that claim to have discovered absolute 'truths' or facts about the world. Second, very few people have willingly accepted the label 'post-structuralist'; rather, they have been labeled as such by others. Therefore no one has felt compelled to construct a 'manifesto' of post-structuralism. Thus the exact nature of post-structuralism and whether it can be considered a single philosophical movement is debated. It has been pointed out that the term is not widely used in Europe (where most supposedly "post-structuralist" theory originates) and that the concept of a post-structuralist theoretical paradigm is largely the invention of American academics and publishers. In the Post-Structuralist approach to textual analysis, the reader replaces the authors as the primary subject of inquiry and, without a central fixation on the author, Post-Structuralists examine other sources for meaning (e.g., readers, cultural norms, other literature, etc), which are therefore never authoritative, and promise no consistency. A reader's culture and society, then, share at least an equal part in the interpretation of a piece to the cultural and social circumstances of the author. Some of the key assumptions underlying Post-Structuralism include: 1. The concept of "self" as a singular and coherent entity is a fictional construct, and an individual rather comprises conflicting tensions and knowledge claims (e.g. gender, class, profession, etc). The interpretation of meaning of a text is therefore dependent on a reader's own personal concept of self. 2. An author's intended meaning (although the author's own identity as a stable "self" with a single,
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