Ser uma semioticista ontem e hoje

Abstract

In this modest memoir, which we have made for the occasion of a generous and moving homage to us at the Federal University of Ceará, we discuss what it means to be a semioticist yesterday and today. We depart from our life at the University and discuss the main researches that we are currently developing in the perspective of semiotics; we also discuss briefly the history and the introduction of semiotics in Brazil; the various reasons that lead Brazilian researches to undertake semiotic studies; the theoretical and methodological paradigm in which the theory is framed; the role of semiotics and of the semioticist in the production of knowledge about society and in the perfectioning of social relations.