Poststructuralism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23723773 |
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| Authors | Timotheus Vermeulen (Radboud University Nijmegen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 1-5 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118766804.wbiect218 |
| OpenAlex | W4230167505 |
| ISBN | 9781118766804 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Though poststructuralism is often associated with a strain of continental, mostly Francophone philosophy from the 1960s and 1970s, the label was proposed by US literary critics at the onset of the 1980s. Indeed, even today, poststructuralism is a characterization that resonates less in philosophy than in the literary and cultural studies and, to a lesser extent, in discourses about media and communication. As the name suggests, poststructuralism is perceived as a response to structuralism—the theoretical premise that cultures can be read as semiotic structures , as sign systems, indeed as languages. By and large, poststructuralism's reaction to its predecessor is fivefold. Two of its parts—the understanding of culture as text and the treatment of texts as structural rather than as individual—extend structuralist debates. The other three—which emphasize the extent to which structures are discursive, intertextual, and deferential, that is, open for interpretation—challenge these debates.
Applied linguistics · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literary criticism · Philosophy of science · Premise · Semiotics · Sign (mathematics) · Sociology · Structural linguistics · Structuralism (philosophy of science) · Lexicography and Language Studies · Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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