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2. STRUCTURALISM AND POST STRUCTURALISM
Structuralism: It is developed in Europe in the mid to late 20th century, define
by Simon Blackburn that structuralism is ‘the belief that phenomena of
human life are not intelligible except through their interrelation. These
relations could constitute a structure and behind local variations in the
surface culture, and constant laws of abstract culture’.
Post Structuralism: It is started in late 1960s by the French scholars, it is
difficult to define because it rejects definition that claim to have discovered
absolute truth, and very few thinkers accepted it.

3. DIVERGENCE
1. Post structuralism is the response to structuralism.
2. Post structuralism rejected the self-sufficiency of the structure.
3. Post structuralism is closely related to post-modernism.
4. Post structuralism says that study must be done on base of knowledge. Structuralism
says that study must be done on the base of words structure.
5. Post structuralism is incoherence while structuralism is coherence.
6. Post structuralism emphasis on subconscious study while structuralism on conscious.
7. Structuralism does not treat terms as an independent entity but post structuralism does.
8. Post structuralism emphasis that the terms derive their meanings on the basis of
relationship of each other. The terms are themselves meaningless; they acquire
meaning from the network of science. This notion is totally contrary to the
structuralism.

4. 9. Post structuralism stresses the existence of system; the system of science.
Meanings are discoverable through in-depth analysis of the system of science.
Meanings are slippery and temporary in nature. Structuralism stresses only on
surface meaning of terms.
10. Post structuralism concentrates on gap that exists in text and is of the view
that meanings are not stable.
12. Structuralism separates the sign from the physical reality it asserting that
language can never grasp this reality, while post structuralism takes it A step
further and disconnect the signifier within the sign itself.
13. Post structuralism emphasis on truth and objective reality and views that it
is not accessible, but in existed within language.
14. Post structuralism proposes that we live in A linguistic universe. Language
is not A transparent medium, language shape sour thought process.
15. Derrida says that everything exists and acquires meaning due to language.
Reality gets constructed through language or linguistic science.

5. CONVERGENCE
1. Both approaches place language at the center of their respective world view.
2. These theories are derived from the Saussure linguistic theory.
3. They both reject the empiricist view of language as a transparent medium between our
mind and the world.
4. Post Structuralism and Structuralism treat language as signs existing independently
from both the mind and physical reality.
5. Further they are agreed to each other that language supersedes the human being as the
source of meaning, action and history.
6. The writers of both theories discuss the structure of the text, and emphasis that outside
text there is nothing real.
7. Both approaches reject the biography, geography, context and history of the author;
give importance the reader, who can shape the text according the thought process.
8. The scholars who shape these two theories are almost same, like; Saussure, claud Levi-
Strauss, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida.