History of Structural Linguistics

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Logical types structural linguistics. 3. Linguistics as a system of distinct types of ontology-cum-methodology. 4. Ideology, power, and linguistic theory. 5. Study of linguistics. 6. History of phoneme. 7. Diachronic phonology. 8. The architecture of a language system. 9. Knowledge of grammars. 10. Structural semantics. 11. Structuralism. 12. Cultural linguistic. Bibliography.

"In linguistics, it is an approach that \'analyses and describes the structure of language, as distinguished from its comparative and historical aspects\'. The next entry defines \'structural linguistics\' in terms that are in part different and in part supply more detail. It is, first of all, \'a descriptive approach to a synchronic or diachronic analysis of language\'. But a \'diachronic\' analysis is precisely one that deals with \'historical\' and, where they are a source for our knowledge of the history, \'comparative\' aspects. This analysis, to continue, is \'on the basis of its structure as reflected by irreducible units of phonological, morphological, and semantic features\'.

Let us look, for a start, at the definitions to be found in general dictionaries. For \'structuralism\' in general they will often distinguish at least two different senses." (jacket)