mythemen.

Brit.

/ˈmɪθiːm/, U.S.

/ˈmɪˌθim/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mythème.

Etymology: < French mythème (C. Lévi-Strauss Anthropologie structurale (1958) xi. 233) < mythe myth n. + -ème -eme suffix.Lévi-Strauss modelled mythème on earlier terms for linguistic units (e.g. morphème morpheme n. and phonème phoneme n.), reflecting his belief that myth and language function according to directly comparable structural principles.

In structuralist anthropology and literary criticism: each of a set of fundamental generic units of narrative structure (typically involving a relationship between a character, an event, and a theme) from which myths are thought to be constructed.

ΚΠ

1963 C. Jacobson & B. G. Schoepf tr. C. Lévi-Strauss Structural Anthropol. xi. 211 How shall we proceed to identify and isolate these gross constituent units or mythemes? We know that they cannot be found among phonemes, morphemes, or semenes.

1969 ELH 36 187 Even parts of sound seem virtually to coalesce as morphemes or mythemes.

1983 T. Eagleton Lit. Theory iii. 104 Myths were a kind of language: they could be broken down into individual units (‘mythemes’) which like the basic sound units of language (phonemes) acquired meaning only when combined together in particular ways.

1998 M. Warner No go Bogeyman (2000) ii. 59 The metaphor is inadequate to the task of capturing all that is happening in the original mytheme of Kronos devouring his children.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mytheme
释义	mythemen. Brit. /ˈmɪθiːm/, U.S. /ˈmɪˌθim/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mythème. Etymology: < French mythème (C. Lévi-Strauss Anthropologie structurale (1958) xi. 233) < mythe myth n. + -ème -eme suffix.Lévi-Strauss modelled mythème on earlier terms for linguistic units (e.g. morphème morpheme n. and phonème phoneme n.), reflecting his belief that myth and language function according to directly comparable structural principles. In structuralist anthropology and literary criticism: each of a set of fundamental generic units of narrative structure (typically involving a relationship between a character, an event, and a theme) from which myths are thought to be constructed. ΚΠ 1963 C. Jacobson & B. G. Schoepf tr. C. Lévi-Strauss Structural Anthropol. xi. 211 How shall we proceed to identify and isolate these gross constituent units or mythemes? We know that they cannot be found among phonemes, morphemes, or semenes. 1969 ELH 36 187 Even parts of sound seem virtually to coalesce as morphemes or mythemes. 1983 T. Eagleton Lit. Theory iii. 104 Myths were a kind of language: they could be broken down into individual units (‘mythemes’) which like the basic sound units of language (phonemes) acquired meaning only when combined together in particular ways. 1998 M. Warner No go Bogeyman (2000) ii. 59 The metaphor is inadequate to the task of capturing all that is happening in the original mytheme of Kronos devouring his children. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1963
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