Paris school semiotics
by Collins, Frank, (Frank H.) Perron, Paul
It has often been claimed that the aim of semiotics is to establish a general theory of systems of signification. However, as Jean-Claude Coquet notes in a recent collection of essays, what distinguishes one school of semiotics from another is the initial definition given of sign. If, for certain semioticians, the sign is first of all an observable phenomenon, for the Paris School it is first of all a construct and this point of departure has crucial theoretical and practical consequences. The …
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- Full title :Paris school semiotics. / edited by Paul Perron & Frank Collins.
Summary
It has often been claimed that the aim of semiotics is to establish a general theory of systems of signification. However, as Jean-Claude Coquet notes in a recent collection of essays, what distinguishes one school of semiotics from another is the initial definition given of sign. If, for certain semioticians, the sign is first of all an observable phenomenon, for the Paris School it is first of all a construct and this point of departure has crucial theoretical and practical consequences. The essays appearing in these two volumes are representative of recent work carried out by members of thi.
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- Publication Date:1989.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):J. Benjamins Pub. Co
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1989.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 257 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027278388, 9027278385, 1283424584, 9781283424585, 9786613424587, 6613424587
- oclc:ocn778434219
- LC Classification:P99.37.F8
- Dewey Decimal:001.51/0944
Table of Contents
PARIS SCHOOL SEMIOTICS I. THEORY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Interfaces: The Care for a Project; Some Thoughts on this Intellectual Fare; Aspects of a Theory in Progress; NOTES; REFERENCES; I. Narrative Grammar, Actions and Passions; Greimas's Narrative Grammar; I. AT THE FUNDAMENTAL GRAMMAR LEVEL: THE FIRST STAGE OF ""NARRATIVIZATION""; Discussion; II. FROM THE FUNDAMENTAL GRAMMAR TO THE SURFACE NARRATIVE GRAMMAR: THE NARRATIVE UTTERANCE; Discussion; III. FROM THE NARRATIVE UTTERANCE TO THE NARRATIVE UNIT: ""PERFORMANCE""; Discussion
IV. THE LAST STAGE: THE PERFORMANCE SERIESDiscussion; NOTES; Prolegomenato a Theory of Action; I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS; II. THE NARRATIVE PROGRAM AS MODEL OF REFERENCE FOR A THEORY OF THE FORMS OF ACTION; III. TOWARDS A RESTRICTED THEORY OF SIMPLE FORMS OF ACTION AND INTERACTION; IV. FROM THE ACTANTIAL LEVEL TO THE ACTORIAL LEVEL; NOTES; Toward an Anthropomorphic Narrative Topos; I. WHY THREE DIMENSIONS FOR NARRATIVE?; I.1. Empirical Reasons; I.2. Empirical reasons alone are not enough; I.3. Some Applications and Some Developments; II. DEVELOPING AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC NARRATIVE TOPOS
II.1. The Combinat…
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