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Jacobs is a peerless innovator of structuralist film, which explores time and vision, and the technologies with which we try to control them, by emphasizing the formal qualities of the medium.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023

Was Ferdinand de Saussure a structuralist or a post-structuralist?

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

I had no vision for the future, but I knew education, and being a structuralist at heart developed curriculum.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2021

The pioneering structuralist Roman Jakobson had famously promulgated six functions to language, but he hinted at the possible existence of a seventh, one in which words acquired the persuasive force of incantations or magic spells.

From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2017

He became the more jaundiced during the so-called structuralist controversy within the faculty and resigned in 1982.

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2010