结构主义是20世纪最常使用分析文学、语言及社会科学的一种研究方法。从广义来说,结构主义试图探究一个文化意义,它是透过什么样的结构被表达出来。首先强调整体性,结构主义认为,整体对于部分来说是具有逻辑上优先的重要性。正如霍克斯所说:“在任何情境里、种因素的本质就其本身而言是没有意义的,它的意义事实上由它和既定情境中的其他 Structuralism is one of the most commonly used methods of analytical literature, language and social science in the 20th century. In a broad sense, structuralism seeks to explore a cultural significance through which structure it is expressed. First of all, the emphasis on integrity, structuralism that the whole for the part is the logical priority of importance. As Hawkes put it: ”In any situation, the nature of the factor is, by itself, insignificant, and its meaning is in fact determined by it and the other