The Semiotics of Discourse - Translated by Heidi Bostic

Biographie de Heidi Bostic

The Author : Jacques Fontanille is President of the Université de Limoges in France, where he is also Professor of Linguistics and Semiotics. He holds the Chair in Semiotics at the Institut Universitaire de France. He is the author of several books, including Le Savoir partagé (1987), Sémiotique du visible (1995), Sémiotique et littérature (1999), and Soma & séma (2004). He is co-author, with Algirdas Julien Greimas, of The Semiotics of Passions (1993) and co-author, with Claude Zilberberg, of Tension et signification (1998).
The Translator : Heidi Bostic holds a Ph.D. in French from Purdue University in Indiana and a Diplôme d'études approfondies en Sciences du langage from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in France. She is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Gender Studies at Michigan Technological University. She is the author of several articles on French literature, feminist theory, and semiotics.
Her published translations include Luce Irigaray's book The Way of Love (2003).