I am seeking to understand the contextualized meaning of a specific word for a specific population via their use of the word in narraives. This seems to call for a semiotic approach to narrative analysis. Where would be a good place to find information as to how to go about doing that?
Thank you in advance.
Narrative is a verbal text characterized by an objective description of a series of chronological and causally related events. The semiotic presentation of a series of events semantically related in a temporal and causal way. Movies, plays, comics, novels, newsreels, diaries, chronicles or treatises on geology are all narratives in this broad sense. In this sense, narratives can be constructed through the use of a wide range of semiotic environments: the written and spoken word, visual images, gestures and actions, as well as a combination between them & also Analyzing Autobiographical Narrative.
I think you should use Greimas. Some articles of mine about this are attached here. I hope it can help you
Article O piloto-aprendiz e o engenheiro-mestre: O ensino esportivo ...
Article Os enunciados do jogo e o imaginário do esporte: métodos par...
Article A narrativa da Copa do Mundo de 1950 nas crônicas jornalísti...
Greimas is a valuable hint. I would also look into the work of George Lakoff.
Thank you Rafael for your help. Unfortunately I do not understand the language im which these papers are written.
I recommended this paper by Luis Fernando Arévalo, because it has mix Greimas, Courtès and Fontanille, French Narrative semiotics.
I am writing a paper about Greimas method in English. Meanwhile, you can read him. The link is to his book, Jacob. Best luck!
https://smile.amazon.com/Structural-Semantics-Attempt-at-Method/dp/0803221126/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=RC8DVH3G40BWY6BT7YDE
Look into work done by Cary Jewitt, Gunther Kress, and Kay O'Halloran on multimodal analysis. This is a semiotically-based approach to discourse beyond the verbal/non-verbal divide and includes different types of print and audiovisual texts.
For a brief introduction to a "soft" Greimasian semiotics of narrative see my introduction to the contribution by Claude Calame in my Approaches to Greek Myth 2nd ed.
Although I made my doctorate with Greimas, I would not recommend getting involved with his complicated theories, given the rather modest aim of you interest in narrativity. I think the best text on narrativity, with no particular epistemological presuppositions, in Logique de récit, by Claude Bremond from 1973. As far as I know, there is no English translation. The best overview in English may still be Narratology : the form and functioning of narrative, by Gerald Prince, from 1982. Both references are rather old, but Prince at least has an ongoing online handbook project here: http://www.lhn.uni-hamburg.de/users/gerald-prince
Best wishes
Göran Sonesson
As I promised, my recent article about Greimas in English. Best luck in your research.
Article Narrative between Action and Transformation: A. J. Greimas' ...
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