From Greimas to J. Geninasca: On the Semiotics of Discourse

Abstract

This article concentrates on demonstrating how Greimas and Geninasca, while sharing the same epistemological principles, have positioned their respective research at different levels and pioneered two distinct semiotic projects, one orientated towards the langue, the other towards the parole, as defined by F. de Saussure. For Greimas indeed, the coherence and intelligibility of texts depends on one – and only one – elementary and universal structure of signification. This structure, the model of which is the semiotic square, is supposed to be prior to, and
independent of any enunciative activity. Within the general framework of Greimas’ semiotic