Algirdas Julien Greimas

Algirdas Julien Greimas (originally Algirdas Julius Greimas, born March 9, 1917 in Tula, † 27 February 1992 in Paris) was a semiotician and co-founder of the School of Paris.

Life

Greimas studied law in Lithuania and in Grenoble (1936-1939) linguistics. In 1939 he returned to Lithuania back, became a soldier and fought against the German Wehrmacht. In 1944 he went to Paris and completed his studies at the Sorbonne. He then worked as a lecturer at the universities in Ankara, Istanbul, Poitiers and Alexandria. In Alexandria, he met Roland Barthes know. Between them an intensive exchange and a relationship developed. In 1965 he became a professor in Paris.

Theory and work

Greimas published in 1966 his " These structural semantics ", arguing that modern Textsemiotik. Greimas developed here a structural analysis, which closely aligned with the tradition and development of concepts of Saussure and Hjelmslev. Greimas founded therefore on the Parisian school as an independent direction in semiotics. The narrative text is the focus of analysis Greimas. His theory and research project is referred to as narrative discourse grammar school of Paris.

His basic message about the importance of narrative ( story ) can be described with the sentence: "the world is narrated ." This means that not only real experiences and fictions are narrated and explained above, but also cultural and social representations, such as the construction of "people", " culture ", " nation ", " democracy ", " internet ", etc. These can be analyzed as " narratives ".

Greimas definition of semiotics

The subject of semiotics is by Greimas not the development of a theory of signs, but the theory of meaning (signification ), the over - and looks at the levels below the character.

On the bottom examines his semiotics generally designated as the inside side of the sign where it is analyzed the smallest divisions of meaning of a sign, called Seme. On the top of the character units to be examined that form a " more than one character " text structures.

Greimas ' Textsemiotik

The Greimas'sche Textsemiotik based on the linguistic structuralism Louis Hjelmslev, structural anthropology of Claude Lévi- Strauss and the formalist theory of the tale by Propp.

Greimas ' These structural semantics

The Greimas'sche These structural semantics refers to Saussure's concept of differential quality, Hjelmslev's model of glossomatischen characters and the Dependency of Lucien Tesnières.

Works

  • Sémantique structurale. Paris: Larousse. In 1966.
  • You sens 1970.
  • Maupassant: La sémiotique you text. In 1976.
  • Sémiotique et sciences socialles. In 1976.
  • You sens II: Essays sémiotiques. Paris: Editions du Seuil in 1983.
  • Sémiotique. Dictionnaire raisonné de la théorie du langage, Vol 1 and 2, Paris 1979 and 1986 ( together Joseph Courtes ).
  • Des dieux et des hommes. In 1985.
  • De l' imperfection. In 1987.

English editions:

  • The Social Sciences, a Semiotic View: A Semiotic View 1990, ISBN 978-0816618194.
  • Aims and Prospects of Semiotics: Vols I & II (with Herman Parret ).
  • The Semiotics of Passions: From States of Affairs to States of Feelings: From States of Affairs to States of Feeling ( with Jacques Fontanille ).
  • Maupassant: the Semiotics of Text: Practical Exercises ( Semiotic Crossroads ), ISBN 978-1556190636.
  • Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology, ISBN 978-0253326522.
  • Narrative Semiotics and Cognitive Discourses, 978-0861877713.
  • Semiotics and Language: An Analytical Dictionary, ISBN 978-0253351692.
  • On Meaning: Selected Writings in Semiotic Theory, ISBN 978-0816615193.
  • The Social Sciences: A Semiotic View, ISBN 978-0816618194.
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