Is Semiotics a Method or a Discipline? A Bibliometric Analysis of Brazilian Research in Semiotics
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https://doi.org/10.17058/signo.v51i101.21154Keywords:
Semiotics, Bibliometrics, Brazilian Scientific Production, Research Interests, Method, DisciplineAbstract
Semiotics, the science of signs, carries an original fragmentation among the Peircean, discursive, and cultural traditions. In Brazil, the field is expanding, but there is a lack of studies that characterize how semiotic research has been practiced. This article conducts a bibliometric analysis of 4,398 theses and dissertations (2014-2023) filtered based on the terms "semiotics," "semiotic," and "semiose." The results reveal a hegemony of the Southeast region in absolute numbers, but with indicators that reposition the Northeast and Midwest regions when considering relative production; a concentration in Linguistics, Letters, and Arts; the predominance of the tradition known as discursive semiotics (followed by interdisciplinary studies, Peircean semiotics, and the semiotics of culture); in addition to the prevalence of six distinct thematic groups (verbal languages, communication and marketing, education, arts and design, exact sciences, human sciences), which mobilize semiotics in different ways. The analysis suggests that, in practice, semiotics in Brazil does not constitute a unified field, but rather a plural set of approaches that cuts across disciplines, operating sometimes as a science with its own traditions and objects, and sometimes as a transversal method appropriated by diverse areas for specific purposes.
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