Jean Cristtus Portela

• Abstract

  This project intends to study syncretic discourses in Belgian and Brazilian culture from a semiotic perspective. By syncretic discourse, we mean a device consisting of at least two language systems (text and image, image and sound, etc.), as found, among others, in advertising posters, graphic novels, opera, comics, art installations, and graffiti. At a theoretical level, the project will…

  Semiotic approaches to syncretic discourses, AP.R SPRINT

• Abstract

  This project consists of an epistemological and historical study on the discursive semiotics and its historiography, with the general objective of proposing a critical reading of how semiotics focused on its own history, particularly concerning the way the relationships between linguistics and semiotics were constructed in the elaboration of the concept of enunciation, a notion that prese…

  Semiotics of discourse: epistemology and history, AP.R

• Abstract

  Since the early 1990s, in the theoretical framework of the discursive semiotics, the debate on the semiotic status of "forms of life" (a term coined by L. Wittgenstein) has received continuous elaborations until it became, more recently, a topic of growing interest, mainly due to the efforts of Professor Jacques Fontanille, Ph.D. researcher at the Université de Limoges and founder of the …

  The Semiotics of forms of life, AV.EXT

• Abstract

  This project aims at examining how the daily newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, through the selection and publication of materials, build the image of transgender individuals as actors enrolled in the semiotic discourse. The research corpus comprises articles published in the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo for two years, between July 2011 and June 2013. The theoretical framework used to perf…

  The discursive construction of transgender identity in the newspaper o Estado de S. Paulo, BP.IC

• Abstract

  The greimassian Semiotics is a collective project of theoretical construct. Such project requires to be studied from the point of view of its history and epistemology. This study proposes a reflection of an historical and conceptual nature about the Narrative Semiotics of greimassian inspiration, from the originals ideas of V. Propp, C. Lévi-Strauss e A. J. Greimas, until the theoretical …

  From Propp to Ricoeur: origins and impasses of Narrative Semiotics, BP.MS

• Abstract

  The pilot or pilot episode (the first episode of a TV series) fulfills the important role of not only convincing the big executives of a major producer or broadcaster to buy and produce the audiovisual product but also to make the public develops an interest in a particular fictional universe, giving the spectator essential elements that make the narrative desirable. The television vignet…

  Relations between pilot and opening credits on the tv show Dexter, BP.IC

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• Abstract

  This research aims at providing an inventory and analyzing methodologies of semiotic analysis applied to the study of comics, with the purpose of establishing the state of art of these studies in the scope of contemporary semiotics. The first stage of the study consists of an inventory and description of analyses of comics that explicitly employ concepts of general semiotics, which is com…

  Semiotics of comics: theory and history, BE.PQ