Structuralism

3. The relationship between the signifier and the signified is:

• causal

• arbitrary

• literal

• relative

Structuralism is primarily concerned with:

• Studying the unconscious mind

• Examining the structure of society

• Investigating human behavior through experiments

• Analyzing the underlying structures of language and thought

In structuralism, what does parole refer to?

• contradiction

• conditional early release from prison

• rules of grammar

• an individual speech utterance

What theorist is credited with the beginnings of structuralism?

• Ferdinand de Saussure

• Vladimir Propp

• Cleanth Brooks

• T.S. Eliot

In what field did structuralism begin?

• Literature

• Philosophy

• Linguistics

• Biology

When we understand something by what it isn't, we are using what?

• close reading

• our brains

• binary oppoisition

• ambiguity

The concept that a signifier refers to is known as the:

• binary

• signified

• sign

• object