The Cognitive Dimension of Narrative Discourse

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ID4914286
AuthorsA-J Greimas, A J Greimas, Jean Courtès, Michael Rengstorf
Year1976
Volume7
Issue3
Pages433
Publication date1976-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Literary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/468554
OpenAlexW2318123033
LanguageEN
Citations received17

INCE Ferdinand de Saussure, European linguistics has tried to break its bonds with philosophy and the presuppositions of philosophy, so as to warrant its own autonomy and status as a scientific discipline. For this reason, it eliminated the concept of thought, too closely bound to the problem of mental activity and to the problem of ontological subject; it replaced the concept of by that of meaning [signification], better adapted for the analysis of this social phenomenon, language. As is known, meaning-defined as the form resulting from the union of a signifier [signifiant] and a signified [signifil]--may be grasped and studied at two different moments [instances]: either (a) at the time of the language act, for which we shall use the term enunciation, when semiosis takes place; or (b) after this operation: the result of semiosis will then correspond to the actualized utterance, or statement [inonce]. This distinction is comparable to a relation used in philosophy: the difference between thinking [pensie pensante] and thought [pensee penste] is, in fact, parallel to the opposition (and complementarity) that we posit here between enunciation and utterance

Art · Cognition · Cognitive science · Dimension (graph theory) · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Pure mathematics · Sociology · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology

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