In or out of theory?

Abstract

There are stages in a theory’s life, in which its transformations are more frequent, more intense and in a position of more evidence. They are also stages of uncertainty and controversies, and, therefore, productive and stimulant. It is in this context of dynamism that this article situates the Greimasian semiotics theory, in order to, based in the work Da imperfeição by the same Greimas, identify and reflect about propositions and methods, whose theoretical statute in the semiotics is not general consent.