A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning: Linguistics, Semiotics and Discourse Theory

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Original Title Original Copyright Dedication Contents Preface 1. The Analytical Dictionary: Language, Semiotics, and the Discourses of the Human Sciences Introduction: The Duality of Language Language Semiotics Discourse Conclusion 2. Structural Semantics and Structural Linguistics The Functional Linguistics of the Prague School Language without Meaning: The Linguistic Methodology of Bloomfield and Hjelmslev The Linguistic Analysis of ‘Structural Semantics’: The Immanent Semantic Universe 3. Structural Semantics and Du Sens II: Actants, Functions, and the Semio-narrative Level Linguistics and Semiotics Actants Actants and the Semio-narrative Level Functional Analysis: Propp and Greimas The Generative Trajectory of Discourse 4. Maupassant and Sémiotique et Sciences Sociales: Discourse and Narrativity Greimas and Lévi-Strauss Collective Corpus: Semiotics and the Social Sciences Individual Texts: Semiotics of Literature 5. Avatars of Semiotics: Greimas and Poststructuralism Semiotics in Crisis Poststructural Semiotics: The Deconstruction of Jacques Derrida Enunciation and the Surface of ‘Things’: Knowledge and Power in Lacan and de Man Reference and Enunciation: Greimas and Poststructuralism Bibliography Works by A .J. Greimas Cited Works by Other Authors Index