Difference between revisions of "Talk:Mythème"
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| + | The cataloguer of folk tales [[Vladimir Propp]] considered that the unit of analysis was the individual tale: the unitary mytheme by contrast is the equivalent in myth of the [[wp:phoneme]]s, [[wp:morpheme]]s and [[wp:sememe]]s into which [[Linguistics|structural linguistics]] divides language: the smallest possible units of meaning within a language system. | ||
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| + | Like [[Saussure]]'s [[sign]]s, [[mytheme]] are created by binary or ternary oppositions and are analogous with the functions identified by [[Propp]] in his morphology of the folk tale. [[Mytheme]]s are to be identified with functions, and not with the characters of mythical tales. | ||
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Revision as of 06:54, 12 November 2006
The mytheme is term used by Claude Lévi-Strauss to describe the
by analogy with phoneme, and used to describe the elementary units employed in the structural analysis of wp:myths.
