Without Greimas, with Greimas, after Greimas, hundred Greimas

Abstract

Driven by the conviction that the greatest homage to be paid to Greimas is by showing how his project was successful in terms of its longevity, vitality, and reach, we present a brief account of my academic pathway, from the first contacts with semiotics theory up to some theoretical developments proposed collectively within LabSSeDi. Among the topics, presented in general terms, some stand out: a tensive reading of the veridctory modalities; some central issues related to the intersemiotic translation project and its formulation around the re-creation of an enunciative project; a gradual treatment of concessivity; and some appointments about what will eventually unfold in the hybrid languages project. With this report, we hope to contribute to show that the greimasian approach of the phenomena of meaning construction renews itself in its openness to new challenges to the theory that, thanks to its coherence, remains robust and productive.