Intersemiotic Retextualization

Abstract

This essay, aligned with Textual Linguistics (TL) studies, aims to present a theoretical [methodological] formalization of what we are calling Intersemiotic Retextualization. Based on a multifaceted and multimodal notion of text – also supported by social semiotics –, inherent to a nature disposed between the materialization of multiple semioses and their effects of socio-interactional meanings, we insert ourselves in a so-called PHASE 5 of TL (from a socio-cognitive-multimodal interactionist perspective), in which studies focus primarily on analyses and investigations of texts that go beyond what we know as “traditional”, focused only on working with speech and writing. In this context, we present a notion of Retextualization that seeks to go beyond what is classically presented in the literature (speech-speech, writingwriting, speech-writing, writing-speech), seeking to encompass a more robust set of semiotic modes and resources present and possible in textual events, in addition to the verbal; with a theoretical proposal for possible applicability in scientific analyses and studies, going through the detailing of the base processing factors, composed of transmutation and the cognitive-contextual condition, and the textual processing factors, through the understanding of the base text, multimodal topicality and the reformulation and regularization of the final text.