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Toward a semiotic analysis of greetings: Searle or Ionesco?

Toward a semiotic analysis of greetings: Searle or Ionesco? Toward a semiotic analysis of greetings: Searle or lonesco? SANDA GOLOPENTIA-ERETESCU The meanings of 'greeting' There are two meanings for words such, as greeting, salutation, and their equivalents in many other languages (Sp. salud, saludo; Rom. salut; It. salutazione, saluto, salute; FT. salut, etc.) that are often fused in the dictionary. These are: (a) the action of greeting and (b) the greeting sign (the linguistic expression, the literary text, the gestural structure, the ceremony, etc.) by means of which such an action is achieved. To avoid ambiguous formulations, we will include between braces the words that refer to greeting actions, and we will underline the words that refer to greeting signs wherever necessary. For example, 1. a. {greetings} are most complicated in this community ( = greeting actions); b. greetings are most complicated in this community ( = greeting signs). While it is clear that greetings in the latter sense are a legitimate subject for semiotic inquiries (of a syntactic, semantic or pragmatic nature),1 things become more complicated when we turn to greeting actions. One has a choice, at this point, between two possible approaches. The first approach would consist of making the study of greeting actions part http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Semiotica - Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies / Revue de l'Association Internationale de Sémiotique de Gruyter

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de Gruyter
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Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
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0037-1998
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10.1515/semi.1986.61.1-2.1
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Toward a semiotic analysis of greetings: Searle or lonesco? SANDA GOLOPENTIA-ERETESCU The meanings of 'greeting' There are two meanings for words such, as greeting, salutation, and their equivalents in many other languages (Sp. salud, saludo; Rom. salut; It. salutazione, saluto, salute; FT. salut, etc.) that are often fused in the dictionary. These are: (a) the action of greeting and (b) the greeting sign (the linguistic expression, the literary text, the gestural structure, the ceremony, etc.) by means of which such an action is achieved. To avoid ambiguous formulations, we will include between braces the words that refer to greeting actions, and we will underline the words that refer to greeting signs wherever necessary. For example, 1. a. {greetings} are most complicated in this community ( = greeting actions); b. greetings are most complicated in this community ( = greeting signs). While it is clear that greetings in the latter sense are a legitimate subject for semiotic inquiries (of a syntactic, semantic or pragmatic nature),1 things become more complicated when we turn to greeting actions. One has a choice, at this point, between two possible approaches. The first approach would consist of making the study of greeting actions part

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Semiotica - Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies / Revue de l'Association Internationale de Sémiotique – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1986

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