Algirdas Julien Greimas
Author
1917 – 1992
Who was Algirdas Julien Greimas?
Algirdas Julien Greimas, known among other things for the Greimas Square, is considered, along with Roland Barthes, the most prominent of the French semioticians. With his training in structural linguistics, he added to the theory of signification 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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- Born
- Mar 9, 1917
Tula - Also known as
- Греймас, Альгирдас Жюльен
- Ethnicity
- Lithuanian people
- Nationality
- Lithuania
- Education
- University of Paris
- Vytautas Magnus University
- Died
- Feb 27, 1992
Paris - Resting place
- Petrašiūnai Cemetery
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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