SEMIOTIC SPACE IN DIALOGUES AND BOUNDARIES

Abstract

Nothing translates in a more effectively fashion the notion of cultural environment than the process of continuity. Nothing materializes in a more radical fashion the semiotic continuum than the boundary that joins and places in dialogue the cultural systems in confrontation. In the context of the semiotic thought about culture, dialogy is developed inside the arena of confrontational spaces in which sign systems are responsible for contacts and cultural meetings. The concepts of boundary and dialogy translate almost equivalent intensities of power when inserted in the process of cultural semiosis; notwithstanding, Lotman’s conceptual field of semiosphere is not directly dependent on Bakhtin’s assumptions. What conceptual lines have been responsible for approaching and distancing such concepts? To what extent is it licit to operate continuity? These are the points that are expected to be examined in the study.