Remembering Semiotic Pathways in Company with Greimas: 1970-1985

Abstract

This text summarizes the long years of work done in the context of A.J. Greimas’ structural semiotics to develop the dynamical models introduced by R. Thom. It outlines the contribution of these models and explains how they can develop a coherent mathematical interpretation of fundamental concepts of structuralism as worked out by Greimas. It also recalls the affinities with other theoretical developments of semiotics.

Keywords catastrophe; continuous/discontinuous/discrete; aesthetics; gestalttheorie; iconicity; morphodynamic