Algirdas Julien Greimas
Lithuanian-French linguist
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- Doctorate Linguistics Université Paris Cité
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Algirdas Julien Greimas 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 . He is, along with Roland Barthes, considered the most prominent of the French semioticianss. With his training in structural linguistics, he added to the theory of signification, plastic semiotics, and laid the foundations for the Parisian 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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