Tensive semiotics: theoretical foundations

Considering this thematic dossier, which aims to establish an overview of theoretical and methodological studies of various theories of discourse, we present in this paper the main theoretical foundations of tensive semiotics. Current development of French semiotics, such theoretical approach, developed mostly by the French semiotician Claude Zilberberg, it can be characterized by, in general, grant privileged place for the continuity and affection in discourse. Semiotics, discipline whose object of study is the meaning, has an interdisciplinary basis making it one of the most advanced theories of text/discourse presently. One of the subjects that drew to configure itself as a discipline was phenomenology, which has been rescued in recent decades by semiotic studies. This phenomenological turn, into which fits the tensive semiotics, implies a change in which the sensitive aspect of meaning overlaps the intelligible. Thus, this paper presents firstly the relationship between semiotics and phenomenology, highlighting the Merleau-Ponty’s concept of the presence field. Secondly, it addresses the question of continuity and affection in theory and, finally, presents its main theoretical and methodological foundations, whose most important analytical tool is the tensive space, a result of the intensity axis projection (sensible) on the axis of extent (intelligible). Therefore, the tensive semiotics, which has is in France and Brazil its prominent poles of development, progressively emerges as a solid theoretical perspective to analyze textual and discursive phenomena, characterized by instability, affection, by chance, in short, by event.

ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVES: A PROPOSAL OF LEARNING TO READ APPLIED TO DESIGN

The purpose of this research is to build reading routes from the analysis of verbal and visual productions developed by undergraduate students. For this goal, learning sequences are created, based in the identified routes so as to try to reach more elaborate comprehension levels. The set of propositions of this research offers the teacher strategies that embody an inter- and trans- disciplinary proposal by relating visual and verbal languages​​, supported by the French-based Semiotics.