An Introduction to Applied Semiotics

Louis Hébert is a professor of literature at the Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR, Canada). His research focuses primarily on semiotics (textual and visual), interpretive semantics, the methodology of literary analysis, Magritte and Buddhism. His publications include Cours de sémiotique [Course in Semiotics] (Paris, Classique Garnier), L’analyse des textes littéraires: une méthodologie complète [Literary Text Analysis: A Complete Methodology] (Paris, Classiques Garnier) and Introduction à la sémantique des textes [An Introduction to the Semantics of Texts] (Paris, Honoré Champion). He is the editor or co-editor of five collective books. He is the editor of the Dictionnaire de sémiotique (http://www.signosemio.com/documents/dictionnaire-semiotique-generale.pdf), as well as of the bilingual website Signo—Theoretical Semiotics on the Web (www.signosemio.com) and an online database of nearly all of the works and themes of René Magritte (www.magrittedb.com).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, DIAGRAMS AND TABLES

SYMBOLS

INTRODUCTION

1. STRUCTURAL RELATIONS: HOMOLOGATION

2. OPERATIONS OF TRANSFORMATION

3. THE SEMIOTIC SQUARE

4. THE VERIDICTORY SQUARE

5. THE TENSIVE MODEL

6. THE ACTANTIAL MODEL

7. THE NARRATIVE PROGRAM

8. THE CANONICAL NARRATIVE SCHEMA

9. FIGURATIVE, THEMATIC AND AXIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

10. THYMIC ANALYSIS

11. SEMIC ANALYSIS

12. DIALOGICS

13. THE SEMANTIC GRAPH

14. ANALYSIS BY CLASSIFICATION

15. ANALYZING RHYTHM AND ARRANGEMENT

16. THE FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE

17. PEIRCE'S SEMIOTICS

18. NARRATOLOGY

19. THE ANTHROPIC ZONES

20. A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO SEMIOTICS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX