Une sémiotique à refaire?

In daily life, we are often searching for signs at the surface of the world, as if it were a text. But it also happens that in the absence of any particular signs which would convey some codified significations we feel the presence of elements that immediately make sense. Not only music, images, faces, but any object may affect us this way: we sensitively grasp what they mean, rather than we cognitively read them as signs. Semiotics should develop tools in order to account for both these modes of significance. The present essay reconsiders critically, with this scope, the basic semiotic notion...