1. A distant reading of
Greimas’ Dictionnaire
Everardo REYES
Université Paris 8
13th IASS Congress
26-30 June 2017 | Kaunas, Lithuania
2. • Dictionnaire raisonné de la
théorie du langage
• A.J. Greimas & J. Courtés
• Hachette, Paris
• Editions: 1979, 1993
The Dictionnaire
3. • Immediate access to the terms
• Introducing concepts
• Points to what is left to do
• Alphabetic dispersion
• Hard to control the
taxonomic coherence
Advantages Disadvantages
[ Greimas & Courtés, 1979 ]
4. “La bible de tout sémioticien”
Denis Bertrand,
AFS Congress, 2017
5. “There are 19 references to Barthes”
Thomas Broden,
AFS Congress, 2017
6. Distant reading
• Franco Moretti & colleagues
• Analysis of style, plot, quantities, etc.
• Stanford Literary Lab
https://litlab.stanford.edu/pamphlets/
• Distant Reading [ Verso, New York, 2013 ]
15. • Number of characters (including spaces): 119,8277
• Number of characters (without spaces): 961,512
Length of characters per term
• Average = 1,760
• Median = 1,000
• From 76 (Intercalation) to 23,000 (Sémiotique)
645 terms