Stories of resistance in Greek street Art: A cognitive-semiotic approach

@article{Stampoulidis2019StoriesOR,
  title={Stories of resistance in Greek street Art: A cognitive-semiotic approach},
  author={Georgios Stampoulidis},
  journal={Public Journal of Semiotics},
  year={2019}
}
In line with cognitive semiotics, this paper suggests a synthetic account of the important but controversial notion of narrative (in street art, and more generally): one that distinguishes between three levels: (a) narration, (b) underlying story, and (c) frame-setting. The narrative potential of street art has not yet been considerably studied in order to offer insights into how underlying stories may be reconstructed from the audience and how different semiotic systems contribute to this… 
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