Signos, comunicação e mundo da vida: a abordagem sócio-fenomenológica da semiótica de Alfred Schütz

Abstract

By analyzing the relation between individual and society, Alfred Schütz in his socio-phenomenological approach perceived the importance of medíating communication and sign processes, and consequently developed a semiotic theory. Representation, understood as essential for his sign concept, is seen here as a re1ation between signifier and signified which is installed by the user in a constructive act of interpretation. The subsequently developed concept of"appresentation" comprises the objective meaníng at the levei ofa) a sign system; b) subjective interpretation; c) situation or context; and, taking into account the communicative function o f the sign process, d) a sign producer and its complement, e) a sign recipient.