Alice engages into a dialogue with Saussure
Woordenland
~Dialogue between Eaglet and Dodo
~CHAPTER III A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
~Pg. 30
~Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland
~1865
“Speak English!’ said the Eaglet. I don’t know
the meaning of half those long words, and what’s
more, I don’t believe you do either”
Structuralism
~Ferdinand de Saussure
~Structuralism
~1857-1913
“The individual elements of a system only have significance when considered in relation to the structure as a whole, and the structures are to be understood as self-contained, self-regulated and self-transforming elements.
