structuralism

is a methodology whose power is to show that what at first appears to be an infinitely various, essentially contextual mass of utterances is in fact less internally various and less contextual than that appearance.

As Duncan Kennedy suggests, “the power of structuralist methodology is that it shows that what at first appears to be an infinitely various, essentially contextual mass of utterances (parole) is in fact less internally various and less contextual than that appearance” (Kennedy 1994:343).

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