Abstract

In the footsteps of the semiotic school of Moscow-Tartu / Tartu-Moscow: Evaluations and perspectives

Highlights

  • The collection of essays proposed by Ekaterina Velmezova for Slavica Occitania bears a title that immediately reveals the corpus of the thematized issues: The Semiotic School of Moscow-Tartu / Tartu-Moscow

  • The participation of authors from several countries accompanies the contributions written by the direct witnesses, Boris Uspensky and Tatiana Nikolaeva (Ms Nikolaeva passed away in the fall of 2015), and offers an unprecedented reflection that completes, interprets and further explores the previous fundamental publications, which are more linked to the “memory”, such as the Russian collection The Moscow-Tartu Semiotic School (Neklyudov 1998)

  • In the essay “On the Subject of the Genesis of the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School,” Uspensky stresses that from the outside people saw in this academic “union” a unity that the members themselves did not necessarily presume to have

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Summary

Introduction

The collection of essays proposed by Ekaterina Velmezova for Slavica Occitania bears a title that immediately reveals the corpus of the thematized issues: The Semiotic School of Moscow-Tartu / Tartu-Moscow. It is, an attempt to offer a transversal “balance” of a phenomenon that, according to the historical, geographical-spatial and epistemological angles adopted or experienced by the observer, is referred to as either the Semiotic School of Moscow-Tartu or Tartu-Moscow – a nomenclature that is, in other words, intimately linked to the position taken by the initiator-witness, the disciple, the adherent, or by the researcher interested in studying the matter of Soviet semiotics. This review is, a space to pay homage to Vyacheslav Ivanov, one of the founding members of the School, who died on 7 October 2017

The when and the where of the School
The question of the School’s representativeness and leadership
School or informal group?
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