Abstract

TATIT, Luiz. Bases of Tensive Thinking. Tóp. Sem [online]. 2022, n.47, pp.85-104.  Epub Jan 31, 2022. ISSN 2594-0619.

In this paper, the author reveals some of the decisive steps that marked the entry of the tensive thinking into the greimasian semiotics. The main subject of this narrative was the Frenchman Claude Zilberberg, who knew how to conduct the counterpoint of the semiotization founded by the Lithuanian theorist with the “temporalization” practiced by Paul Valéry, with the idea of accentuation professed by Ernst Cassirer and also with the musicalization found in Gisèle Brelet. Step by step, Zilberberg went on to a tensive grammar, in which intensity (affective force) and extension (field of comprehension of facts) are articulated, and at the same time to a grammar of expectation that responds to the coexistence of antagonistic concepts, including, of course, their own contrary concepts, such as “event” and “surprise”.

Keywords : semiotics; prosody; tempo; tonicity; intensity; extension.