Three Paths of Semiotic Research in the Post-Greimas Paris School

Li Shuang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2024, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (1) : 165-173.

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Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2024, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (1) : 165-173.
Narrative and Semiotic Studies

Three Paths of Semiotic Research in the Post-Greimas Paris School

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As the birthplace of semiotics and the center of European semiotic research and development, France, particularly the Paris School of Semiotics led by Algirdas Julien Greimas, spearheaded the trajectory of literary theory in the second half of the twentieth century. The early research of this school centered on narrative semiotics, emphasizing figurative construction, logical semantics, and narrative grammar within complex textual forms. Following Greimas's passing, the research of the Paris School continued to evolve. Building on achievements of discourse analysis, cognitive science, and phenomenology, three distinctive research approaches emerged: the semiotics of passions, subjective semiotics, and tensive semiotics. While their research emphases differ, they all carry forward the legacy of Greimas's semiotics. Rooted in linguistics and drawing extensively from other disciplines such as phenomenology, they exhibit a high degree of complementarity and integration, establishing themselves as a crucial theoretical framework for the study of emotion, body, and tension.

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post-Greimas era / semiotics of passions / subjective semiotics / tensive semiotics / the Paris School

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