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In the 1910's a group of Russian Literary Scholars in Moscow and St. Petersburg- The Moscow Linguistic Circle formed a group composed of Jakobson, Eichenbaum and others. These men were perforatively named: |
The Russian Formalists |
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The ________ included Biographical and psychological studies of the authors they read. |
The Russian Formalists |
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These two types of critics both felt that the meaning of literature should come from the text itself. Lit itself = internal mechanics or 'devices' as opposed to theme or content. They both wanted more scientific study in literature. |
New Critics- "The Verbal Icon" largely provided readings of individual literary works. Russian Formalists- define the range of technical linguistic devices, and Biography |
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The ways that lit language is different from everyday language is called __________ |
literariness |
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Order in which events are rep'd as happening is called ---------- *Russian Formalists |
Fabula |
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Artistic arrangement of events in literature. (Something might start with a flashback.) |
Syuzhet |
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The Process of making the familiar strange. |
defamiliarization |
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This Swiss professor invented the structural study of language. His students put their notes together and published his work as 'The Course in General Linguistics.' |
Ferdinand D' Saussure
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Phenomena as they happen over time |
diachronic |
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Phenomena as they are at a given moment in time. |
synchronic |
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Any individual seech act. French for speech. (Saussure) |
parole |
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A system of rules (a grammar). French for 'language,' Saussure. |
langue |
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The union of a concept and a sound image. Saussure |
A sign |
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The material component of the sign, a unit of sound or of writing. grapheme, phoeneme |
signifier |
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The ideational component of the sign (the concept or idea—e.g., the notion ‘chair.’ Note that this is not the same as any given chair.) |
Signified |
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4 basic elements of Saussere's thoughts |
Systemic arbitrary relational social
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signifiers produce meaning only when we construe them as part of a larger communicative system. |
systemic |
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no sinifier signifies by itself |
relational |
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Saussere asserts that the relation between two parts of signs, signified and signifier is ________ meaning that there is no relation between the two. And the sign is given signifigance only by the society which uses it. |
Arbitrary |
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The study of the life of signs within society. The study of signs and sign systems. |
semiology or semiotics |
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the effort to think through the human sciences with a semiotic (linguistic) model. |
structuralism |
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primary meaning; a direct specific meaning as distinct from an implied or associated idea. |
denotation |
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Secondary meanng; the suggestion or meaning of a word apart from the thing it explicitely describes; or implication |
connotation |
