Question

Describe the essential components of ferdinand's structuralism

Answer 1

The essential component of Ferdinand's structuralism is Understanding Speech, Language, and Speaking.

Explanation:

The key ideas and distinctions that Saussure makes are between:  

• Langue and Parole: While langue refers to the systematic structure of language which is shared by the whole community, parole is a speech act that refers to individual usage of language.  

• Signifier, Signified and Referent: Signifier is the sound image of what one talking about, Signified is the concept of the object that one is talking about and the referent is to the actual object.  

• Synchrony and Diachrony: Synchrony refers to the complete linguistic system at a given time and diachrony refers to how the linguistic system has developed over time.