Society studies from the perspective of Greimassian semiotics Les études de société selon la perspective de la sémiotique greimassienne
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2017
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Semiotica
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De Barros D.L.P.
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© 2017 by De Gruyter Mouton.In this study, the aim is to show how semioticians who follow the French perspective, especially in Brazil, have contributed towards a greater understanding about social discourses. In previous studies, we pointed out that one of the main concerns of Latin-American semioticians is to explain the processes of human signification as well as their societies and countries. In our perspective, this is so because of two central matters: on the one hand, because of the paradigm in which semiotic theory and methodology is placed, on the other hand, because of the reception and developmental conditions of semiotics in Brazil and in Latin America in general. This article is organized in three parts: in the first, we show that the relations of the semiotic proposal with society, history and culture are given beforehand, due to the theoretic-methodological paradigm in which semiotics is inserted and to its analytical project, and we highlight that semiotics does not fall within the excess of formalism that denies history, nor does it fall within ideologism that ignore the integration between social realty and linguistic organization; in the second part, we analyze the reception conditions of semiotics in Brazil; in the third part, we provide two examples of these society studies undertook in Brazil.