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Also known as Algirdas Julius Greimas

Lithuanian-French linguist (1917-1992)

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Born
1917
Died
1992
Works
80

Top works

  • Dictionnaire du moyen français
  • Moyen français
  • Lietuva pabaltijy
  • Introduction à l'analyse du discours en sciences sociales
  • Hommage à A.J. Greimas

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Lithuania
Active from
1950-05-17

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Born
Algirdas Julius Greimas , ( 1917-03-09 ) 9 March 1917, Tula , Russian Empire
Died
27 February 1992 (1992-02-27) (aged 74), Paris, France
Citizenship
Lithuania, France
Education
Vytautas Magnus University , Kaunas; University of Grenoble ; Sorbonne , Paris (PhD, 1949)
Known for
Greimas square , actantial model , isotopy
Spouse
Teresa Mary Keane
Fields
Semiotics , structural linguistics
Institutions
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Doctoral students
Jacques Fontanille

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date of birth
1917-03-09
date of death
1992-02-27
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Algirdas Julien Greimas
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Algirdas Julien Greimas ( French: [alɡiʁdas ʒyljɛ̃ gʁɛmas]; born Algirdas Julius Greimas; 9 March 1917 – 27 February 1992) was a Lithuanian literary scientist who wrote most of his body of work in French while living in France. Greimas is known among other things for the Greimas square (le carré sémiotique). He is, along with Roland Barthes, considered the most prominent of the French semioticians. With his training in structural linguistics, he added to the theory of signification, plastic semiotics, and laid the foundations for the Paris school of semiotics. Among Greimas's major contributions to semiotics are the concepts of isotopy, the actantial model, the narrative program, and the semiotics of the natural world. He also researched Lithuanian mythology and Proto-Indo-European religion, and was influential in semiotic literary criticism.

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