Cultural analysis adopted Saussure’s linguistic structural model

Evidence

Lé vi-Strauss had earlier argued for the resumption of what he called the “forgotten part of the Durkheim-Mauss programme” to which the study of representations was central. The linguistic model developed by Ferdinand de Saussure was then extrapolated to argue that much of sociocultural life could also be understood as structured like a language. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 289

Categorization

• DEFINE: Charts the lineage from Durkheim-Mauss collective representations to structuralism and semiology.
• XREF: connects to: Structuralism reframed culture study from decoding social contents to cracking codes — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 361; Saussurean linguistics treats langue as code and langage as the messages it generates — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2509; Barthes reversed Saussure’s hierarchy, subordinating linguistics to semiotics. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 364 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Structuralism reframed culture study from decoding social contents to cracking codes — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 361; Saussurean linguistics treats langue as code and langage as the messages it generates — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2509; Barthes reversed Saussure’s hierarchy, subordinating linguistics to semiotics. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 364 (+2 more)