structuralistn.adj.

1870 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, Country Gentleman 3 Mar. 173/1 The attitude of the structuralist is, in point of fact, apologetic; admitting the sacrifice of plumage, he pleads as a set-off ‘compensation’ in structure.

1891 G. Kamensky & A. J. Greenaway tr. D. I. Mendeléeff Princ. Chem. II. App. 423 The ‘structuralists’ seek to justify the tetrahedric, plane, or prismatic disposition of the atoms of carbon in benzene.

1900 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 160 327 Science demands a terminology and a nomenclature, and whatever may be said of the superficial character of all systematic work..it must always be a need, that the systematist precede the structuralist and provide him with a language and a framework for his finer researches.

1953 C. E. Bazell Ling. Form viii. 103 One man is interested in city-structure, and another is interested in the description of cities... If a city is built in the form of a square, this is not more likely to escape the eye of the descriptionist than that of the structuralist.

2006 North Shore News (British Columbia) (Nexis) 7 Sept. 33 I guess I'm kind of a structuralist and I like the idea of things having underlying structures to them.

1900 Psychol. Rev. 7 391 The controversy between those who call themselves the structuralists and functionalists in psychology.

1907 J. R. Angell in Psychol. Rev. 14 67 Dwelling as the structuralist is supposed to do upon the problem of determining the irreducible elements of consciousness and their characteristic modes of combination.

1930 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 42 135 It [sc. configuration] flatly rejects the structuralist's plurality of elements and regards askance the whole program of the structuralist's analytical approach.

1961 J. E. Royce Man & his Nature iii. 44 The materialistic bias of the structuralists under Tichener led them to absurd interpretations in their attempt to reduce thought processes to sensory experiences.

2009 J. S. Nevid Psychology (ed. 3) i. 6 The structuralists sought to work out a periodic table of the elements of consciousness.

1947 Language 23 76 Recent structuralists have discarded this transcription in favor of a phonemic one.

1949 Archivum Linguisticum 1 184 A survey of post-neogrammarian views on language, viz. those of Saussure..and the Danish ‘structuralists’.

1975 G. Steiner After Babel ii. 83 More than a century before the modern structuralists, Humboldt notes the distinctive binary character of the linguistic process.

1982 Listener 18 Nov. 17/2 Structuralists and post-Structuralists maintain that the notion of the author as the creator of his works is merely a modern consolation prize.

2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory viii. 598 Levi-Strauss and the French structuralists may well be correct in holding that human brains work best as dichotomizing machines at single levels.

1962 Oxf. Econ. Papers 14 192 The Latin American school of ‘structuralists’ is very little known in the United Kingdom.

1965 Economist 25 Sept. p. xxvi/2 Some extreme structuralists argue that demand deflation is actually likely to increase cost inflation.

1985 Guardian (Nexis) 23 Apr. The very fact that he was asked to activate the programme has changed the balance of power between the monetarists and the structuralists.

2008 T. L. Edwards Brazil ii. 127 The structuralists tend to identify political causes of inflation.

1895 B. Berenson Lorenzo Lotto ii. 102 Expressivist and linealist, rather than structuralist, by nature, Alvise's development lay chiefly along the line of expression and lineal effect.

1948 Slavonic & East European Rev. 26 438 We except the recent structuralist formulae of the Prague-Copenhagen schools.

1955 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 85 1 The air of enchantment which for the last two decades has surrounded the ‘structuralist’ point of view.

1955 Times 11 June 5/5 In contrast to much of to-day's painting..which is considered finished when it has reached the stage which, in any other epochs, would have been called the sketch, Structuralist painting is carried to completion in strict obedience to the scientific laws of colour-form structure.

1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax ii. 67 Such a system is apparently what is implicit in modern taxonomic (‘structuralist’) grammars.

1970 Sunday Times 15 Nov. 32/2 Today when we go to Paris, we can read structuralist novels, look at structuralist paintings and hear structuralist music. Even newspaper cartoons and gourmet meals are subjected to structuralist interpretations.

1979 A. R. Peacocke Creation & World of Sci. i. 29 This more narrowly functionalist account of myth has given way, following the lead of Lévi-Strauss, to a ‘structuralist’ account.

1996 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 18 Oct. 30 The young rabbinists..examine parts of Talmudic literature from the perspective of French structuralist and poststructuralist thought.

2010 Sci. Fiction Stud. 37 145 On one side is scholarship on the fantastic, primarily structuralist in methodology, rooted in Tzvetan Todorov's..The Fantastic.

1907 J. R. Angell in Psychol. Rev. 14 62 The most lucid exposition of the structuralist position still remains, so far as I know, Titchener's paper, ‘The Postulates of a Structural Psychology’.

1929 W. B. Pillsbury Hist. Psychol. xvi. 271 The structuralist school..holds that consciousness is directly observable and is composed of simple, definitely describable elements.

1982 Erkenntnis 18 6 Titchener's view was structuralist, Baldwin was developing an early kind of functionalism.

2005 D. B. King & M. Wertheimer Max Wertheimer & Gestalt Theory vii. 154 He satirized the structuralist procedure of categorization of hues and brightnesses of visual images.

1962 Oxf. Econ. Papers 14 194 The profession in the region has been involved in a major debate between ‘structuralist’ and ‘monetarist’ positions.

1976 C. H. Kirkpatrick & F. I. Nixson in M. Parkin & G. Zis Inflation in Open Economies (1978) vi. 131 The ‘structuralist’ argument..is that inflation is inevitable in an economy that is attempting rapid growth in the presence of structural bottlenecks.

1982 Financial Times 6 Jan. 4/1 The ‘structuralist’ school of economists in Latin-America.

1995 A. Hossain & A. Chowdhury Monetary & Financial Policies in Developing Countries iii. 54 There is..some evidence in favour of the ‘structuralist’ view that inflation is a necessary evil caused by growth.