As múltiplas faces de um rosto feminino

Abstract

This paper discusses the relations of interaction created by different languages in the construction of complex texts presented by the media and the paper also considers the methodological issues arising from the description of such texts, to which several languages concur. From there, the paper analyses the production process involving signification and meaning of a black and white captioned photographic text, namely, the closed close-up of the feminine face of a rock-androll singer, which allows different readings, depending on the enphasis given to the different possible articulations between the meanings. The way these different meanings overlap explains the textual signification, which retrieves the course the feminine has run in the last fifty years in the western culture.