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http://doi.org/10.33234/SSR.21.8
Published 19/3/2025
Liliano Pazo
Written by Liliana Pazo, Argentinian, Professor, (USAL) Graduate and Doctor of Letras (language). Specialist in Superior Education and Diploma in Education. She has worked as a Linguistics and Semiotics Professor in several of the country’s technical tertiary education institutions and universities and has acted as the Vice-dean and Academic Director of the ILSE (UBA). She has directed and participated in investigation projects in the UBA and the Profesorado Superior Dr. J. V. Gonzalez as well as coordinated and presented in conferences and seminars within Argentina and in other countries. She has taught courses in Linguistic C3apacitation for teachers and other professionals, and has written many academic articles and texts such as Actos de Lectura (Biblos, 2011), El párrafo (Libros, 2016) and El léxico (Biblos, 2011). She is currently writing Semiótica, cultura y neoliberalismo.
Escrito por Liliana Pazo,argentina, profesora, licenciada y doctora en letras (USAL). Especialista en Educación Superior y Diplomada en Gestión Educativa. Se ha desempeñado como profesora de lingüístico y semiología en varias instituciones terciarias y universitarias del país.. Vicerrectora y Directora académica del ILSE (UBA) Dirigió y participo en proyectos de investigación en UBA y en el Profesorado Superior Dr. J. V. Gonzalez.. Expositora y coordinadora en congresos y seminarios dentro y fuera del país. Dicto cursos de capacitación lingüística para docentes y otros profesionales. Escritora de numerosos artículos académicos y textos como Actos de Lectura (Biblos 2011), El párrafo ( Libros 2016) y El lexico (2012) Actualmente está escribiendo Semiótica, cultura y neoliberalismo.
Translated by Deborah Rotshtein
Make sure that, reading your story, the melancholic move towards laughter, those who laugh begin doing it louder, the simple are not bothered, the discreet become amazed with the invention, the serious do not disregard it, nor the wise stop praising it.
Cervantes: 2004, p. 14
Introduction
In Don Quixote’s prologue, Cervantes announces the purpose of a literary work: being open to different interpretations that allow every reader a personal encounter. We believe that Semiotics offer a theoretical basis to have a creative and open encounter with texts, without drifting away from other disciplines and the objectiveness that the text itself encompasses.
In the first place, we explain the classical and modern conceptions of the sign, namely representation and significance, in order to observe the function of Literature as a sign that withholds both conceptions. In the second place, we analyse the particularities of the literary sign as a creative energy of meaning. In the third place, we study meaning as significance, which is the individual and innovative enjoyment of the reader, who then builds new meaning. Furthermore, we inquire into the potentiality of the literary sign, open and creative, but framed by the “place of the text”, with a “box of tools for analysis” and specific examples. Finally, we will reach some conclusions that allow us to face reading as a singular and objective act. 