Text, context and history in Algirdas Julius Greimas' works

ENThere is an opinion that semiotics, including that of Algirdas Julius Greirnas, by contrasting system and process, ignores and even neglects the context and historical aspects of the discourse as well as social dimension of it. This attitude is strong enough in popular reception of A. J. Greirnas semiotics as well as in the works of the most famous sociologists ( Pierre Bourdieu, for example, starts many of his works by criticing the so called "phonological model" of investigation and the whole structuralist episteme of social sciences). In the paper we are discussing the reasons of this prevalent opinion. We try to show how Greimas incorporates the context, social and historical aspects in his scientific project.

• Filosofija / Philosophy
• Literatūrologija / Literary Studies