EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN STRUCTURALISM - A COMPARATIVE DESCRIPTIVE STUDY

Abstract

Modern linguistics has dominated in its content the linguistic research, and it occupies a distinguished position as a modern and contemporary science due to what it has presented and is still providing for language in the midst of this accumulation of knowledge. At the beginning of the twentieth century, as well as in the arena of linguistic research in America, it likewise had trends, schools, pioneers and theories. And both directions have a coalition and a difference in the principles, orientations and methodologies based on them from the angle from which each structural view of the language, in terms of origin, method, study, the intended goal of the study, and the cognitive backgrounds that define the direction of the study, although both European and American structuralism did not speak out of nowhere, there are conceptions in thought The ancient linguistic structure of the two constructivists adopted it as a pillar either by contradiction or building upon it out of familiarity with it as a basis for a study from it. The beginning of the emergence and precedence of European structuralism that became known in the arena of linguistic study according to the tangible results that are distinguished by Jeddah and Al-Jadid.