The Twilight of Structuralism in Linguistics?

• Authors: Ewa Jędrzejko
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The Twilight of Structuralism in Linguistics?This article attempts to offer a brief description of the overall situation in contemporary linguistics in the context of the changes taking place. Specifically, it refers to the ongoing discussions in the areias of various contemporary humanist disciplines on the subject of the achievements of structuralism and is future prospects in studies on language. The main theses considered here are: 1. One should not speak of the decline structuralism without indicating how this term should be understood and defining the scope of the teoretical-methodological principles developed by de various structuralist schools. 2. Taking into account the general principles and methods of the description, as given in the majority of contemporary literature on the subject it may reasonably be supposed that as yet no theoretical-methodological counter-proposal has emerged which, opposing structuralism, would discard al its basic premises while at the same time protecting the autonomy of linguistics as a science. The author endeavours to show that it would be more rational to speak of a successive – and broadly enriched – stage of evolution of the idea of structuralism.Key words: structuralism, linguistics, methodological principles, evolution of studies on language

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Forum Lingwistyczne
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Ewa Jędrzejko

editor

Katarzyna Sujkowska-Sobisz

editor

Karolina Lisczyk-Kubina

editor

Magdalena Pastuch

editor

Mirosława Siuciak

editor

Aleksandra Janowska

editor

Iwona Loewe

editor

Jacek Warchala

editor

Ewa Biłas-Pleszak

editor

Kamila Czaja

other

Katarzyna Sujkowska-Sobisz

other

Karolina Lisczyk-Kubina

other

Magdalena Pastuch

other

Mirosława Siuciak

other

Kamila Czaja