Structuralism and social anthropology in the works of British scientists of the 2oth century

Gavrilova Julia Viktorovna

The article deals with looking into basic ideas of British linguists and anthropologists whose works actually combined both disciplines. The author begins the overview by the ideas of B. Malinowski, famous anthropologist and linguist. He introduced the notion “context of situation”, which later was widely employed in linguistics. Then the author provides the reader with information about E. Leach and R. Needham and proves the connection between both scientific disciplines.

Keywords:anthropology, linguistics, context of situation, structure, theory, social organization, kinship terms.