Estudos Semióticos 

About: Estudos Semióticos is an academic journal published by Universidade de São Paulo, Letras e Ciências Humanas. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Semiotics & Meaning (semiotics). It has an ISSN identifier of 1980-4016. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 248 publications have been published receiving 259 citations.

A recepção internacional da obra de A. J. Greimas: viagens, traduções, transmissões

Abstract: This case study in the history of language sciences is part of the methodological perspective of intellectual history, in which we analyzed the international impact of A. J. Greimas (1917-1992) and his work, by studying the practices of communication, displacement, and translation. The scientific missions conducted outside France, the number and origin of foreign students enrolled in his seminar in Paris, as well as the chronology and linguistic geography of the translations carried out of his work help to trace, evaluate and explain the dissemination and worldwide development of his ideas. His project inspired distinctive appropriations and sometimes institutional structures in several cultural and linguistic contexts, including Romance, Anglo-American, Germanic, Slavic, Lithuanian, and East Asian contexts. The conclusion of this essay assesses the importance played by personal contact, the socio-historical context, and the sociolinguistic and didactic status of French for the worldwide reception of Greimas. Besides, this work is based on published scientific work, archival documents, interviews, and personal communications with translators and editors, with Greimas and his collaborators, and with specialists from the different cultures studied.

Desenvolvimento do conceito bakhtiniano de polifonia

Abstract: In Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, Bakhtin defines Dostoevsky as the creator of the polyphonic novel. We intend to review in this paper the development of the concept of polyphony, defined as the position of maximum distance between the author and the characters in a never-ending dialogue. Dialogism, essence of the Bakhtinian discourse theory, reiterates the subject’s presence in the communication, which is not seen merely as the transmission of information, but as verbal or non-verbal interaction. Individuals are built from interaction and through interaction. Discourses built from other discourses are never concluded and, therefore, texts have many voices. These voices must be equipollent in polyphony. According to Bakhtin, polyphony is an essential part of all enunciations, since different voices are expressed in a same text, and every discourse is built by several discourses. We only understand enunciations when we react to words that awaken in us ideological and/or individual echoes. The reality of signs is objective and it can be studied. Bakhtin calls this study metalinguistics, which is the study of bivocal discourse that inevitably arises under the conditions of dialogical communication and goes beyond linguistic study.

História das ideias semióticas: entre cronistas e inovadores

Abstract: EnglishThe article consists of an epistemological and historical study about the historiography of the semiotics of discourse and has the objective of proposing a critical reading of the way by which semioticians have focused on semiotics history. From reflections developed within the scope of the history of linguistic ideas (S. Auroux) and the frame of historical and conceptual studies of semiotics (J.-C. Coquet, M. Arrive, A. Henault, H. Parret, E. Landowski, C. Zilberberg, S. Badir, among others), it analyzes historical approaches on the semiotics of discourse, concerning its objectives, its methodology and its object, distinguishing two types of historical works that remain current until the moment amongst semioticians (that of the chronicler and that of the innovators) and, at the same time, proposes the minimum fundamentals of a meta-historiography of semiotic inspiration. portuguesO artigo consiste em um estudo epistemologico e historico sobre a historiografia da semiotica do discurso e tem como objetivo propor uma leitura critica do modo como os semioticistas ocuparam-se da historia da semiotica. A partir de reflexoes desenvolvidas no âmbito da historia das ideias linguisticas (S. Auroux) e no quadro dos estudos historicos e conceituais da semiotica (J.-C. Coquet, M. Arrive, A. Henault, E. Landowski, C. Zilberberg, entre outros), analisam-se abordagens historiograficas sobre a semiotica do discurso, no que diz respeito aos seus objetivos, a sua metodologia e ao seu objeto, distinguindo dois tipos de fazeres historiograficos correntes ate o momento entre os semioticistas (aquele dos cronistas e aquele dos inovadores) e, ao mesmo tempo, propoe os fundamentos minimos de uma meta-historiografia de inspiracao semiotica.

Um estudo sobre o símbolo, com base na semiótica de Peirce

Abstract: We live surrounded by symbols, from the waving hands in a farewell to the alphabet we use to speak and write. Although literature about the symbolic brings diverse reductionist definitions for the word “symbol”, it is true that, while explaining the symbolic, there will always be something untranslatable, because the symbol points to something that is absent, representing it, but without apprehending all its possibilities. The reduction or extreme specialization of a symbol’s meaning usually leads to its degradation, making it an allegorical or attributive insignificance (Cirlot, 1984, p. 5). Besides that, the perception of the symbol is also personal, since, in its formation process, human beings add to their personal experience cultural and social values, which are inherited from previous generations. In this sense, the current article aims at discussing the symbolic based on Charles Sanders Peirce, in order to show how such a sign is constituted and understood in the semiotics founded by the referred American author. Before that, however, in the first part of this paper, it is necessary to make some general remarks about the term “symbol”, its origins and the various concepts it receives. Then, in the second part, we focus on the comprehension and interpretation of symbols in general. We expect the current reflection to make clear the role of the symbol in semiotic studies, and to justify interpretations and analysis of the symbol in literature, cinema and culture.

Linguistique intégrationniste et histoire sémiotique des mathématiques

Abstract: This article proposes a presentation of and a discussion on Roy Harris’ Integrational Linguistics. We begin by summarizing the “language myth” characterization, the criticism addressed to it, and the integrational principles proposed in response. The integrational theses and arguments are then confronted with the results of several studies on the semiotic history of mathematics. An examination of the integrational criticism effectiveness allows us to reconsider the consequences drawn from it.