City and Otherness: The Presence of Bolivians in the City of São Paulo

  • Alexandre Marcelo Bueno Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie

    Doctor en Semiótica y Lingüística General por la Universidad de São Paulo (USP). Es coordinador del Grupo de Trabajo de Semiótica de la Asociación Nacional de Posgrado e Investigación en Letras y Lingüística (ANPOLL) y coordinador de la Comisión de Semiótica de la Asociación Brasileña de Lingüística (ABRALIN). Es profesor y coordinador del Programa de Postgrado en Letras de la Universidad Presbiteriana Mackenzie.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18800/conexion.202202.004
Keywords: Immigration, Public space, Social semiotics, Presence

Abstract

The city of São Paulo is known for its large number of immigrants in the past and in the present. These groups produce their presence in the public space, as is the case of Bolivian immigrants. This paper aims to examine some of these enunciative marks to decipher some of the meanings produced by immigrants in urban space. For this, I use the semiotics of Algirdas Julien Greimas and, mainly, the sociosemiotics of Eric Landowski. Thus, I hope to show how alterity is a constitutive part of urban space and think about some consequences of this manifestation of meaning for Brazilian society.

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Bueno, A. (2023). City and Otherness: The Presence of Bolivians in the City of São Paulo. Conexión, (18), 99-125. https://doi.org/10.18800/conexion.202202.004

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