Julien Greimas

Algirdas Julien Greimas (born Algirdas Julius Greimas; 1917–1992), was a French-Lithuanian literary scientist, known among other things for the Greimas Square (le carré sémiotique).

Works

• Sémantique structurale: recherche de méthode, Larousse, 1966.
  • Strukturale Semantik: Methodologische Untersuchungen, Vieweg+Teubner, 1971. (German)
  • Semântica estrutural: pesquisa de método, trans. Haquira Osakabe and Izidoro Blikstein, São Paulo: Cultrix, 1973. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Structural Semantics: An Attempt at a Method, trans. Daniele McDowell, Ronald Schleifer, and Alan Velie, University of Nebraska Press, 1983. (English)

• Dictionnaire de l'ancien français jusqu'au milieu du XIVe siècle, Larousse, 1968.

• Du sens: essais sémiotiques, Paris: Seuil, 1970.
  • Despre sens: eseuri semiotice, trans. & intro. Maria Carpov, Bucharest: Univers, 1975. (Romanian)
  • On Meaning: Selected Writings in Semiotic Theory, trans. Paul J. Perron and Frank H. Collins, foreword Fredric Jameson, intro. Paul J. Perron, University of Minnesota Press, 1987. (English)

• co-editor, Sign, Language, Culture / Signe, langage, culture / Znak, język, kultura / Znak, yazyk, kultura, The Hague: Mouton, 1970. (multiple languages)

• Maupassant: la sémiotique du texte, exercices pratiques, Paris: Seuil, 1975.
  • Maupassant: The Semiotics of Text, trans. Paul Perron, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1988. (English)

• Sémiotique et sciences sociales, Paris: Seuil, 1976.
  • The Social Sciences: A Semiotic View, trans. Frank Collins and Paul Perron, University of Minnesota Press, 1989; repr. as Narrative Semiotics and Cognitive Discourses, London: Pinter, 1990. (English)

• with Joseph Courtés, Sémiotique: dictionnaire raisonné de la théorie du langage, Hachette, 1979.
  • Dicionário de semiótica, trans. Alceu Dias Lima, et al., São Paulo: Cultrix, 1979; 2008. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Semiotics and Language: An Analytical Dictionary, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. (English)

• Du sens, 2, Paris: Seuil, 1983.

• Des dieux et des hommes: études de mythologie lithuanienne, Paris: PUF, 1985.
  • Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology, trans. Milda Newman, Indiana University Press, 1992. (English)

• De l'imperfection, ed. P. Fanlac, Périgueux, 1987.

• with Jacques Fontanille, Sémiotique des passions: des états de choses aux états d'âme, Paris: Seuil, 1991.
  • The Semiotics of Passions: From States of Affairs to States of Feelings, trans. Paul Perron and Frank Collins, University of Minnesota Press, 1993. (English)
  • Semiotika strastey. Ot sostoyaniya veshey k sostoyaniyu dushi [Семиотика страстей. От состояния вещей к состоянию души], LKI, 2007. (Russian)

• with Teresa Mary Keane, Dictionnaire du moyen français, Paris: Larousse, 1992.

• La mode en 1830, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2000.

Literature

• Thomas F. Broden, "Toward a Biography of Algirdas Julius Greimas (1917–1992)", Lituanus 57:4 (Winter 2011). (English)

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algirdas_Julien_Greimas