THE SEMIOTICS OF CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES

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This collection of essays represents Professor Harjeet Singh Gill’s preoccupation with the semiotics of concemptual structures in langugaes, literature, art and culture since 1964 when he joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. The theoretical reflections begin from the twelfth century philosopher, Pierre Abelard, through the Age of Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with Port Royal Logic, Condillac and Destutt de Tracy, to the modern French theoreticians of conceptual constructs… It also includes the semiotic analyses of the narratives of Saint Julien of Flaubert, Puran Bhagat of Qadar Yaar and Heer of Waris Shah.

Harjeet Singh Gill, Emeritus Professr of Semiotics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.