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Fontanille's Biography & Bibliography

Biography

Jacques Fontanille, born in France in 1948, is a professor at the University of Limoges and holds the Chair of Semiotics at the University Institute of France.

He has published numerous articles and books in theoretical, literary, and visual semiotics. He co-developed a semiotics of passions (with Greimas) and tensive semiotics (with Zilberberg), as well as a semiotics of discourse that structures his theoretical work as a whole.

Selected Bibliography

In English

FONTANILLE, J. and A.-J. GREIMAS, The Semiotics of Passions, trans. Paul Perron and Frank Collins, Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

In French

FONTANILLE, J. and A.-J. GREIMAS, Sémiotique des passions, Paris: Seuil, 1991.

FONTANILLE, J., Sémiotique du visible, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1995.

FONTANILLE, J., Sémiotique et littérature, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1999.

FONTANILLE, J. and C. ZILBERBERG, Tension et signification, Liège: P. Mardaga, 1998.

FONTANILLE, J., Sémiotique du discours, Limoges: Presses de l’Université de Limoges, 2003.

FONTANILLE, J., Séma et soma. Les figures du corps, Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2004.

Fontanille's Theories

• The Tensive Model