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Semiotics and Language: An Analytical Dictionary (Advances in Semiotics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Greimas, Algirdas Julien

Courtés, Joseph

Philosophy

Indiana Univ. Pr

Structural Semantics: An Attempt at a Method

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Univ of Nebraska Pr

On Meaning: Selected Writings in Semiotic Theory (Theory & History of Literature)

Reference

Univ of Minnesota Pr

A. J. Greimas is a leading thinker in semiotics who has modeled and shaped the discipline over the last twenty-five years. His theories of discourse display the rigor of science without ignoring the concerns of traditional narrative analysis. The essays in this volume are takes from three major works Du sens (1970), Semiotique et sciences sociales (1976), and Du sens II (1983). Available here for the first time in English, the selections trace the development of Greimas's work in literary, historical, ethnological, sociological, philosophical, and scientific discourses. From the outset, Greimassian semiotics seeks to answer these questions: What are the conditions for the production of meaning, and how can the transformation of meaning into signification be described? in the first four essays Greimas grounds the anthropomorphic dimension of the theory as a whole and establishes the basic form of narrative grammar. The next six essays explore semio-narrative and surface structures, constructing modal and aspectual grammars. Finally, the last four essays examine communication, sociolinguistics, history, and ethnosemiotics.

On Meaning: Selected Writings in Semiotic Theory (Theory and History of Literature)

The Social Sciences: A Semiotic View

Social Sciences

Philosophers and psychologists both investigate the self, but often in isolation from one another. this book brings together studies by philosophers and psychologists in an exploration of the self and its function. It will be of interest to all those involved in philosophy, psychology and sociology.

The Social Sciences, a Semiotic View

In the last ten years several disciplines, including philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and psychology, have selected emotions or passions as their object of analysis. In what might be construed as a reaction to the abstractions (or disconnectedness) of theory, certain practitioners have now decided to explore whether various productions of the body can be folded into the space of epistemology. In "The Semiotics of Passion", Greimas and Fontanille explore the possibility that so-called subjective states - affect, feeling, emotion, passion, avarice, honour, and jealousy - and their multiple mediations can have a semiotic existence. The authors examine such questions as: What are the conditions for the existence of passion? Can passion be submitted to a logic of language? Does passion allow systemic semiotic transformations? Starting from the premise that a meaningful world involves the "subject" in the "state of affairs", Greimas's and Fontanille's investigation of the complex "psychic states" of speaking subjects takes them through texts in philosophy and literature from the 17th to the 20th century. Exploring the work of Descartes, Spinoza, Shakespeare, and Proust, among others, "The Semiotics of Passion" will advance and refine semiotics in general and literary semiotics in particular. A.J. Greimas (1917-1992) was professor of general semantics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His theoretical work on structures of discourse has been seminal for many semioticians. He was the author of many books in French and Lithuanian. Jacques Fontanille is professor of linguistics and semiotics at the University of Limoges and co-director of the seminar in general semantics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

The Semiotics of Passions: From States of Affairs to States of Feelings

Fontanille, Jacques

Sémiotique: Dictionnaire raisonné de la théorie du langage (Langue, linguistique, communication) (French Edition)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Hachette

Sémiotique: Dictionnaire raisonné de la théorie du langage

Education & Teaching

Rastier, François

Quémada, Bernard

Studying & Workbooks

HACHETTE EDUC

Du sens. Essais sémiotiques, tome 1 (French Edition)

Contemporary

SEUIL

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