Algirdas Julius Greimas ir semiotikos mokslas pasaulyje
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: A. Greimas; Algirdas Julius Greimas; Biografija; Greimas, Algirdas Julius; Greimo semiotikos mokykla; Muzikologija; Paryžiaus semiotikos mokykla; Prancūzija (France); Semiotika; Semiotikų pasaulio kongresas Nankine (Kinija); Tarptautinė semiotikos studijų asociacija; A. Greimas; Algirdas Julius Greimas; Biography; France; Greimas' school of semiotics; Greimas, Algirdas Julius; International Association for Semiotic Studies; Musicology; Parisian School of Semiotics; Semiotics; Semiotics world congress in Nanjing (China).
ENAlgirdas Julius Greimas is one of the developers of semiotics, one of the most outstanding pioneers and leaders of the Parisian School of Semiotics in the world, a famous linguist, a Lithuanian mythology researcher, one of the most outstanding Lithuanians in the international world of science, who is comparable in many respects to Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. Algirdas Julius Greimas was born on the 9th of March in the year 1917 in Tula (Russia). His father was a teacher of the primary school for Lithuanians, who were evacuated during World War I, there. He together with his family came to Lithuania, to Kunigiškiai in the year 1918. He had been studying at the Kupiškiai, Šiauliai and Marijampolė gymnasiums. He had been studying the law at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas as well as the French language and dialectology in Grenoble within the years 1934-1936. He had been teaching in Šiauliai during the years 1940-1944. He published his first article “Cervantes and Don Quixote” about the meaning of anti-Nazi resistance in the year 1943. He defended his doctoral thesis in Sorbonne in the year 1948. He had been delivering lectures on the French language history at the Alexandria University within the years 1950-1958. He had been delivering lectures on the French philology disciplines at the Ankara and Istanbul Universities during the years 1958-1962. He was appointed a professor of the Puatje University in the year 1962. He was elected a professor of the Paris Higher Social Sciences School in the year 1965. A.J. Greimas created the general theory of value; he wrote a book “Structural Semantics and Search for the Method” (the year 1966), which brought him the worldwide recognition; he formed the Parisian School of Semiotics. He wrote the majority of his linguistic and semiotic works and studies in French, whereas mythological and essayistic works - in Lithuanian.A.J. Greimas died on the 27th of February of the year 1992 in Paris. He is buried in the Greimas family’s tomb at the Petrašiūnai cemetery in Kaunas. We could get the current picture of the science of semiotics in the world, after having reviewed the material of the 11th World Congress “Global Semiotics: A Bridge Linking Different Civilizations”, which was organized by the International Association for Semiotic Studies and held in October of the year 2012 in Nanjing (China). The work had been taking place in 8 sections, i.e. a) cognition; b) art; c) literature and linguistics; d) culture, media and comparative studies; e) society, history, religion; f) science, practice in semiotics; g) spheres; h) law and semiotics. Our Lithuanian unit was attributed to the section “Spheres” and was called “Greimas and Semiotics in Lithuania”. The following sections that are topical for the Lithuanian science, are noteworthy: the law and semiotics, interdisciplinary research, social semiotics, comprehension of the time and space modelling. The science of semiotics on the separate continents of the world is overviewed in the “Pabaigos mintys” (End thoughts). [From the publication]
