Rethinking Jurij Lotman in the 21st century involves in my view (i) highlighting the suggestions he made through his culturological studies that helped to identify culture as the object of study for semiotics, and (ii) combining these suggestions with a semiotic method of analysis, which Lotman himself did not develop and did not use. In this article, as regards (i), I shall focus on the concepts of intersemiotic text and translation (or transduction), which are central to a mature and modern semiotics; while for (ii), I aim to propose the integration of Lotman's theory of culture with the methodological semiotics of Greimas, since in my view they are wholly complementary.
Semiotics of culture: Convergences between Lotman and Greimas
S TRAINI
2022-01-01
Abstract
Rethinking Jurij Lotman in the 21st century involves in my view (i) highlighting the suggestions he made through his culturological studies that helped to identify culture as the object of study for semiotics, and (ii) combining these suggestions with a semiotic method of analysis, which Lotman himself did not develop and did not use. In this article, as regards (i), I shall focus on the concepts of intersemiotic text and translation (or transduction), which are central to a mature and modern semiotics; while for (ii), I aim to propose the integration of Lotman's theory of culture with the methodological semiotics of Greimas, since in my view they are wholly complementary.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
