In five decades of scientific project, the French semiotics follows the path predicted by Hjelmslev (1975, p.132-133), enrolled in the last words of “ Prolegomena ... “: the transition from immanence to transcendence, both ruled by immanence. Within its short history, there are three “ approaches “ in the development of their methodologies : intelligible, sensitive and cognitive . In the intelligible methodology, the formalism of generative process prevails; in the sensitive one, the incorporation of a sensible body; and finally, in the cognitive methodology, there is the need to move from a flesh body to a cognitive body, introducing the cognitive activity of the individual in the apprehension of meaning. Based on the theoretical tools of French semiotics and taking the nomenclature “cognitive semiotics “, used by authors such as Klinkenberg (2000, 2001, 2010), this paper aims to address the issue of perception, proceeding with the discussions of sensitive semiotics to understand how meaning is constructed through the perspective of the cognitive approach. Thus, integrating the intelligible sensitive and cognitive approaches, the “perception semiosis scheme” is propoed to understand the meaning construction process.
Sensitive semiotics; Cognitive semiotics; Perception
