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As an essential and inescapable element of every signifying and interpretable
structure, isotopy and its functioning were discovered by Greimas and were put
in words for the first time in Structural Semantics (La Sémantique structurale -
1966). It is possible today to consider one or several connotative isotopy/ies that
are constitutive of a signifying set.
Our work deals with isotopy of virtuemes and subjectivemes in the context of
passions. In order to illustrate our point of view we intend to analyse passions,
more specifically the theme of “sadness” in Desbordes-Valmore’s poem “Don’t
write” (N’écris pas - 1860), focusing on Parret’s research The Passions: Essay
on the Setting into Discourse of Subjectivity. (Les Passions. Essais sur la mise en
discours de la subjectivité. - 1986)