Who is the father of structural linguistics?

Ferdinand de Saussure, whose posthumous Course in General Linguistics (1916) laid the foundation for structuralism in linguistics and literary theory.

How many narrative functions did Propp identify?

Vladimir Propp identified 31 narrative functions in his Morphology of the Folktale (1928), appearing in an invariant sequence.

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Structuralism — UGC NET MCQs

25 past-paper pattern questions across all 5 UGC NET question types. Covers Saussure's langue/parole, arbitrary sign, Propp's functions, Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Jakobson, Todorov, Greimas and Genette.

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