Anger and its tensive oscillations

Abstract

In this text, I present two approaches. In the first, I briefly visit three authors who inaugurated what today constitutes the so-called tensive semiotics: A. J. Greimas, B. Pottier and Cl. Zilberberg. In this first movement, I seek to expose the pioneering reflections of these authors on the concept of tensivity, intensity and gradualness, key concepts that will be the methodological basis of the construction of tensive semiotics, in its current models of analysis. I also extend the exposition and visit the reflection of two Brazilian authors, who have explored operational pathways of Pottier's sinusoidal model to extract from it, on the one hand, a flexibilization in the treatment of the epistemic field of Greimassian semiotics (I. C. Lopes) as well as, on the other, a dynamization in the approach of passions, of veridiction, and their application in the analysis of the semiotics of song (R. Mancini). In the second movement I present my own catenary model, inspired by Zilberberg's inaugural reflections on tensivity, and I carry out a brief analysis that focuses on the tensive oscillations of the passion of anger, using Greimas' analysis of this passion as a parameter.