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dominant theme of this and subsequent
chapters. Where Chapter 3 looked at the issue of what buildings mean, in terms
of the existential predicament of humanity and the search for a sense of
belonging, this chapter considers the question of how buildings mean, using the
philosophy of language that has become known as structuralism.
Our
discussion of language so far in this book has centred on the issue of free
will and determinism – the question of whether, as Heidegger suggested, it is
man or language that speaks. Is man in fact the master of language or is
language the master of man?1 The idea that we are somehow restricted by
language to repeating the meanings that have been established before us is
suggested by Heidegger’s etymological analyses that attempt to uncover
so-called original meanings. This approach to the study of language as a
continually developing historical phenomenon seems to ignore the way that the
use of language alters meanings over time. The slightly arbitrary points in
history that Heidegger chooses to look back to still suggest a rather
unscientific understanding of the workings of language as a system. It was the
problem of untangling these historically dependent issues that structuralism
initially attempted to answer and in the process it created a much more
systematic and scientific approach to language, which has since become a “science”
of human culture. As critic Terry Eagleton has succinctly pointed out:
Structuralism
in general is an attempt to apply this linguistic theory to objects and
activities other than language itself. You can view a myth, a wrestling match,
system of tribal kinship, restaurant menu or oil painting as a system of signs,
and a structuralist analysis will try to isolate the underlying set of laws by
which these signs are combined into meanings. It will largely ignore what the
signs actually ‘say’, and concentrate instead on their internal relations to
one another. Structuralism, as Fredric Jameson has put it, is an attempt to
rethink everything through once again in terms of linguistics.2
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