Construction et déconstruction par le mensonge. Approche sémiologique du mensonge à partir du carré sémiotique de Greimas « vérité - mensonge - fausseté - secret »
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2012
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Falsehood Credibility Untruthfulness Believability Lying Credibilidad Falsedad Insinceridad Mentira y verdad Verdad y mentira Mensonge Faux (morale) Contrevérité Vrai (morale) Vérité (morale) Menterie Véracité CrédibilitéCiter ce document
Alexandre Bourmeyster, « Construction et déconstruction par le mensonge. Approche sémiologique du mensonge à partir du carré sémiotique de Greimas « vérité - mensonge - fausseté - secret » », La Revue russe, ID : 10.3406/russe.2012.2532
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This paper explores how the distinction between the term "lie" and "untrue", "false" and "deception". A. J. Greimas's semiotic square and his "veridictory" modalities anable us to identify what is true, false, secret or untrue, and who speaks about the Soviet Union : the loyal communist, the anti-Soviet sympathiser, the specialist of the UdSSR or the duped revolutionary. The best witness for the prosecution is the one who, after breaking with the Soviet state, has not traded in his convictions for bourgeois opinions or for fascism - as he was always accused of by the Communists - but has persisted in defending the Truth. Such "Men of Midnight" include Boris Souva- rine, the author of Staline, aperçu historique du bolchevisme (1935), Victor Serge and his Retour à l 'Ouest : chroniques 1936-1940, and Ante Ciliga, author of Au Pays du Grand mensonge (1938). Living a lie leads to losing one's own human dignity and self-respect. The Soviet regime destroyed the identity of its people, but created the Skaz, a formal Legend instilled into everybody's mind. When it was accepted, the Skaz offered a protection, a kind of habeas corpus, a mask to shown to foreigners. Unfortunately, this art of lying has survived the Soviet Union, and many people today persist in lying in Russia through patriotism.