Structuralism

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Structuralism is a philosophical school of thought that is united by a common analytical approach to language. A structuralist views language as a transparent system: a system in which one can look through to the 'deep structures' underlining a system of signs.

In his book Semiotics for Beginners, Daniel Chandler describes how structuralism, as a method of analysis has been employed by different theorists, "Structuralists seek to describe the overall organization of sign systems as 'languages' - as with Lévi-Strauss and myth, kinship rules and totemism, Lacan and the unconscious and Barthes and Greimas and the 'grammar' of narrative."