Maîtres des règles. De la notion de « code » à la grammaire de l’imaginaire
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https://doi.org/10.23925/2763-700X.2022n4.60193Keywords:
code, créativité, grammaire, innovation, narrationAbstract
Systems of rules are often seen as limitations and prohibitions falling “from the sky” and hindering our creativity. A sociosemiotic perspective should rather lead to regarding them as the produce of a social elaboration : rules constitute established and shared means permitting specific achievements. In other words, rather than juste limitate or prohibit action they afford resources for doing. Systems of rules (or “grammars”) shape the form of our thinking and thereby the form of the world for us. The task of the “creators” is to transform them, not just for the sake of “innovation” but in order to achieve changes in some definite direction corresponding to the need of new forms of expression. The article aims at concretising this perspective on the basis of examples in literature, painting, cinema and music.
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