![]() On the contrary, post-structuralists view the signification of meaning as an infinite and perennial process and meaning is the result of a play of 'différance'. ![]() Whereas, for the structuralists, meaning arises from the functional differences between the elements (signs) within the system (langue). Furthermore, it strives to delve deep into the points of contact, similarities and differences between them on the aforementioned issue. On one hand, it deals with the issues attempted by Saussure, Barthes, Bloomfield, Louis Hjelmslev and Jakobson, whereas on the other hand, those by Foucault and Derrida. The paper undertaken hereby aims at conducting a contrastive study on the conception of the problem of meaning approached by two schools of philosophy: structuralism and post-structuralism. de Saussure edited by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye with the collaboration of Albert Riedlinger translated and. Later on, the concept has been dealt with structuralist and post-structuralist perspectives. Initially rationalism and empiricism dominated the ambit of analytic philosophy, and it is not an exception to these impacts. Students of his wrote it from their notes of his lectures between 1906-1911. ![]() ![]() He did not write the Course in General Linguistics. Best known for developing Plato's idea (from Cratylus) of the signifier to the signified. Meaning has been one of the primordial issues of concern because of its enigmatic nature not only in the Oriental Philosophy but also in the Occidental tradition. Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics (outline) 1857-1913. ![]()
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