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Structural Linguistics
By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on December 22, 2018 • ( 1 )
Structural linguistics was developed by Ferdinand de Saussure between 1913 and 1915, although his work wasn’t translated into English and popularized until the late 1950s. Before Saussure, language was studied in terms of the history of changes in individual words… Read More ›
Key Theories of Ferdinand de Saussure
By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on March 12, 2018 • ( 8 )
Before 1960, few people in academic circles or outside had heard the name of Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913). But after 1968, European intellectual life was a-buzz with references to the father of both linguistics and structuralism. That Saussure was as… Read More ›
Binarism in Post-colonial Theory
By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on October 2, 2017 • ( 1 )
From ‘binary’, meaning a combination of two things, a pair, ‘two’, duality (OED), this is a widely used term with distinctive meanings in several fields and one that has had particular sets of meanings in post-colonial theory. The concern with… Read More ›