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    Structuralism seeks to identify the underlying systems and conventions of literature. It studies language independently rather than in connection to other things. Structuralism was founded by Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure who saw language as a system of signs where the relationship between the signifier (word) and signified (concept) is arbitrary. Functionalism views language as a means of social communication where form is motivated and constrained by communicative situations. It holds that grammar develops based on meaningful choices rather than rules and that children learn based on functional purpose. Cognitivism focuses on mental processes of thinking, understanding, and knowing and how people learn based on internal cognitive processes like sensation, perception, attention, encoding, and

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    Structuralism seeks to identify the underlying systems and conventions of literature. It studies language independently rather than in connection to other things. Structuralism was founded by Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure who saw language as a system of signs where the relationship between the signifier (word) and signified (concept) is arbitrary. Functionalism views language as a means of social communication where form is motivated and constrained by communicative situations. It holds that grammar develops based on meaningful choices rather than rules and that children learn based on functional purpose. Cognitivism focuses on mental processes of thinking, understanding, and knowing and how people learn based on internal cognitive processes like sensation, perception, attention, encoding, and

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    Structuralism seeks to identify the underlying systems and conventions of literature. It studies language independently rather than in connection to other things. Structuralism was founded by Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure who saw language as a system of signs where the relationship between the signifier (word) and signified (concept) is arbitrary. Functionalism views language as a means of social communication where form is motivated and constrained by communicative situations. It holds that grammar develops based on meaningful choices rather than rules and that children learn based on functional purpose. Cognitivism focuses on mental processes of thinking, understanding, and knowing and how people learn based on internal cognitive processes like sensation, perception, attention, encoding, and

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    GRAPHIC

    ORGANIZER
    PEREZ, ANGELIKA S.
    BSED ENGLISH 2A
    STRUCTURALISM
    DEFINITION FOUNDER OF MODERN
    Structuralist investigation of literature LINGUISTICS
    seeks to identify the systems of Swiss scholar Ferdinand de Saussure
    conventions underlying literature. (1857–1913).

    THE MAIN
    CHARACTERISTICS CONCEPT
    Language needs to be studied Focus on sentence structure, patterns of
    “in itself”, rather than in its sentences and appropriate grammar and
    connection with other things. composition

    Language is not a naming process,


    each word corresponding to the
    thing it names. IMPORTANT USE OF THE TERM
    Signifier – the word or sound-image “table”
    Language is a system of signs in which Signified – The concept of table
    the only essential thing is the union of Sign – Actual object: table
    meanings and sound-images. The bond between signifier and signified is arbitrary.
    FUNCTIONALISM
    Motivates
    Functionalism is an approach to Constrains
    language development that focuses
    on the relationship between believe that the
    language form and social meaning. communicative situation…

    Determines grammatical
    structure
    language is not so much a
    system of rules, but a means of
    performing particular socially development are heavily
    communicative functions. influenced by the functional
    purpose they serve.

    The functionalist theory is based on the children learn grammar based


    work of Michael Halliday on meaningful choices rather
    than formal rules.
    Cognitivism

    occurs inside it focuses on how people mental processes


    the learners how people understand
    mind  think and know.

    sensation perception
    cognitivism is a cognitivist
    theory that based on thought
    attention encoding
    process behind the behavior.

    memory
    principle of
    cognitivism

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