The Notion of Event In the Light of Discourse Analysis, Semantics of the Event and Tensive Semiotics

Abstract

Within the textual/discursive studies in the 1980s, the concept of event was introduced in discourse analysis by Pêcheux. From the 2000s, other theoretical perspectives, such as the semantics of the event, which appropriates the AD definition in this own way, relates the enunciation as an event of historical-social nature to language (the system). A third line of discourse studies is the French semiotics, specifically its tensive semiotics, also develops another notion of event its own way: something unexpected and impactful. Thereunto, this paper seeks to bring together the commonalities about the concept of event from those theories, but it mainly pursues emphasize their conceptual and epistemological differences.

Keywords:
Event; Discourse analysis; Semantics of the event; Tensive semiotics