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ABOUT THE AUTHORS Harjeet Singh Gill is an internationally acclaimed linguist. At present, besi... more ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Harjeet Singh Gill is an internationally acclaimed linguist. At present, besides being a fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, he is a Professor Emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Punjabi University and Guru Nanak Dev University.

Harjeet Singh Gill. Patiala, 2011

Gill (b1935, Amritsar) did his PhD in Linguistics [1962 under HA Gleason (Jr) from Hartford, USA]. After producing A Reference Grammar of Punjabi (it resulted in the Linguistic Atlas of Punjab), he started working with Andre Martinet in France. Then, Punjabi University invited him to establish the Department of Anthropological Linguistics in 1968. He developed a semiotic methodology to analyse literary, cultural and sacred texts. He worked in areas as varied as structuralism, dialectology, language and culture, folklore, arts and religion. UGC nominated him National Professor of Linguistics (1986) and Punjabi University conferred Honorary DLitt (1997) on him for his contribution to Punjabi language and literature, culture and folklore.

Apart from his Linguistic Atlas of Punjab, Gill’s original works include three volumes of Structures of Signification, Semiotics of Conceptual Structures, semiotic discourses (St Julien, Puran Bhagat, Heer Ranjha) and interpretative discourses of Guru Nanak, Macchiwara, Heer Ranjha and other legends of Punjab. He was the first Indian scholar to be invited to contribute to Encyclopedia Britannica’sEncyclopedia of Semiotics.

Gill is known for his translations from French, English, and Punjabi. His translation of Japuji of Guru Nanak and Jãp Sahib of Guru Gobind Singh into English (1993) is a noted translation. He has also translated Nanak Bani and Sufibani into English.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Harjeet Singh Gill is an internationally acclaimed linguist. At present, besi... more ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Harjeet Singh Gill. Patiala, 2011

This collection of essays represents Professor Harjeet Singh Gill's preoccupation with the semi... more This collection of essays represents Professor Harjeet Singh Gill's preoccupation with the semiotics of conceptual structures in language, literature, art and culture since 1964 when he
joined the Centre National de Ia Recherche Scientifique in Paris. The theoretical reflections begin from the twelfth century philosopher, Pierre Abelard, through the Age of Enlightenment
of the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries with Port Royal Logic, Condillac and Destutt de Tracy, to the modem French theoreticians of conceptual constructs. This eight hundred
years long tradition has been reflected upon, interpreted and applied on specific European and Indian, oral and written texts, by the author, and by his students in a number of doctoral
theses. There have been different perceptions but the reactions and responses of the students and colleagues, both Indian and French, have helped crystallise his theoretical position, without
necessarily altering the basic hypotheses. The search for this epistemological continuity was the main theme of the International Seminar on Theories of Signification since the Middle Ages that Professor Gill organised in Paris in November 1993 on the invitation of the Maison des Sciences de I 'Homme. These reflections in a new unified conceptual structure are presented for another look, regard, another critique.

Paris
January 13, 1995 Danielle Gill

In this cosmology, Guru Gobind Singh presents a correspondence and concordance between the physic... more In this cosmology, Guru Gobind Singh presents a correspondence and concordance between the physical and the metaphysical, between the secular and the spiritual. It presents a possibility that can revolutionise the whole historical progression of mankind. (With Text in Original Gurumukhi Script and Roman Transliteration).

The essays on Signification in Buddhist and French traditions included here present the revised ... more The essays on Signification in Buddhist and French traditions included here present the revised version of the lectures delivered at the College de France in December- 1 998. The Buddhist theory of apoha vada is represented by the sixth and the seventh centuries philosophers, Dignaga and Dharmakirti with their celebrated commentator in the eighth century CE, Santiraksita. The French Conceptualism begins with Pierre Abelard in the beginning of the twelfth century and is followed
by Condillac in the eighteenth and Merleau-Ponty in modern times. It is shown that each philosopher is dialectically engaged with his own tradition, comes to terms with the prevalent ideologies of his times, and then proposes his own theory. What is important, however, is the fact that as the general dialectical engagement was similar, as the basic concern in both cases was the dominance of a certain Realism, the philosophers of these two traditions were able to steer clear of the extreme positions adopted by the Realist and the Nominalist thinkers. . .A rendering into English of Abelard's Tractatus de Intellectibus has been added to this series of essays.

Heer Ranjha and other legends of the Punjab BY HARJEET SINGH GILL

Lecture Series on Buddhist and French Tradition - Harjeet Singh Gill ( A revised version of the l... more Lecture Series on Buddhist and French Tradition - Harjeet Singh Gill ( A revised version of the lectures delivered at the Collège de France in 1998. Lecture- 01/08

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