Roman Jakobson et Claude Lévi-Strauss : linguistique et anthropologie structurales

After having briefly recalled the context of his meeting with Jakobson in the United States at the beginning of the 40’s, this article tries to identify what fascinated Lévi-Strauss in the recently discovered Troubetskoy and Jakobson’s phonology. Returning to the notion of phoneme makes it possible...

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Main Authors: Jacques Durand, Jean-Pierre Albert
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Language:Spanish
Published: Presses universitaires du Midi 2011-06-01
Series:Caravelle
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/4586
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description After having briefly recalled the context of his meeting with Jakobson in the United States at the beginning of the 40’s, this article tries to identify what fascinated Lévi-Strauss in the recently discovered Troubetskoy and Jakobson’s phonology. Returning to the notion of phoneme makes it possible to identify, based on the instinctive notion of distinctive sound, a conception of language as a system of differences similar to Saussure’s. Such is the origin of the importance granted by Lévi-Strauss to structural oppositions which he thinks organise the kinship as well as the mythologies. Afterwards, some important results of structural analysis in anthropology are recalled (for example, a new conception of symbolism), in order to evoke the critical impact of Chomsky’s linguistics on this conception of links existing between linguistics and anthropology.
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Roman Jakobson et Claude Lévi-Strauss : linguistique et anthropologie structurales
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Lévi-Strauss (Claude)
Chomsky (Noam)
phonology
mythology
title Roman Jakobson et Claude Lévi-Strauss : linguistique et anthropologie structurales
title_full Roman Jakobson et Claude Lévi-Strauss : linguistique et anthropologie structurales
title_fullStr Roman Jakobson et Claude Lévi-Strauss : linguistique et anthropologie structurales
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title_short Roman Jakobson et Claude Lévi-Strauss : linguistique et anthropologie structurales
title_sort roman jakobson et claude levi strauss linguistique et anthropologie structurales
topic Troubetzkoy (Nikolaï Sergueïevitch)
Lévi-Strauss (Claude)
Chomsky (Noam)
phonology
mythology
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