strutturalismo

structuralism

noun stroot-too-rah-LEEZ-moh Rare

Usage Note

Strutturalismo is an academic/intellectual term referring to the 20th-century theoretical movement (Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Barthes) that analyzes cultural phenomena as systems of structural relations. It is invariably masculine and used mainly in the humanities. The adjective form is strutturalista (which is also the noun for a structuralist scholar).

Examples

"Lo strutturalismo ha rivoluzionato la linguistica."

Natural Translation

Structuralism revolutionized linguistics.

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