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.

MENTIRA E DISSIMULAÇÃO EM "NOITE DE ALMIRANTE"

Este artigo analisa as personagens presentes no conto “Noite dealmirante”, de Machado de Assis, apresentando um narrador que detém seu olhar nos sujeitos de um mundo em que a tônica é a pobreza. Nesse conto cujo enredo aborda uma espécie de adultério entre pobres, a ironia machadiana apresenta a história da paixão ambígua entre o marujo Deolindoe Genoveva, que firma entre si uma promessa de fidelidade, quebrada, todavia, pela mentira e pela dissimulação de ambas as partes (também uma maneira de mascarar a instabilidade da condição socioeconômica de ambos), haja vista que o marinheiro oculta aos amigos seu desencontro amoroso com Genoveva, bem como esta assume o não cumprimento da palavra empenhada, pois, diante da dúvida do sucesso do relacionamento com o marinheiro, passara a viver com outro homem, reflexo das injunções econômicas às quais muitas das mulheres pobres e comprometidas da época estavam sujeitas, isto é, diante da incerteza de haver uma relação futura pautada pela estabilidade, muitas optavam por unir-se a outro homem, o qual pudesse pelo menos oferecer certa segurança econômica e mesmo amorosa.