What does Thomas Broden Think Of ‘The Black Boxes’ In Greimasian Semiotics?

Résumé

This work is the result of research with twelve ‘disciples’ of Greimas about the possible ‘black boxes’ in his semiotics and seeks to answer the following questions: Did the black boxes exist? If they did, what were they? What do Greimas followers have to say? Initiated in 2014, the research project Black boxes and the importance of French semiotics in the analysis of verbal, non-verbal and syncretic discourse lasted seven years and approached the survey through readings of articles and books, the contributions of semioticians such as José Luiz Fiorin, Luís Hébert, Silvio de Santana Jr, Nícia Ribas D'Ávila, Ignácio de Assis Silva, Edward Lopes, Arnaldo Cortina, Edna Fernandes, Ronald Schleifer and Louis Hébert, among others, through interviews regarding the development of Greimas' semiotic theory. In this article, an interview with one of the responsible of spreading the semiotics of Greimas into the United States, the semiotician Thomas F. Broden.