Comunicação imersiva dos museus: a semiótica em Auschwitz-Birkenau e no Museu da Língua Portuguesa

Abstract

The following master thesis presents a study of the communication process of Immersion in the Museu da Língua Portuguesa and Auschwitz-Birkenau. This phenomenon will be observed as a multifactorial subject of sensitive affectation, involvement and cognition through the interrelationships between signs, objects and interpretants, being therefore a signic process. The museum, in turn, will be studied as a hybrid and transmedia environment in constant transformation. Semiotics will be a methodology to identify the signic processes of facilities, interpretants generation opportunities and make the receptor´s involvement with a semiosis. The pragmaticism develop by Charles Peirce will help as a methodological basis research with the purpose to guide the testing of hypotheses and consequences as practices of this work. The central hypothesis is that different kinds of Immersion happen in those two Museums, being more energetic in Museu da Língua Portuguesa and more emocional in Auschwitz-Birkenau museum. So, semiotic analysis will be made, based on speculative grammar, the facilities at Museu da Língua and the views of the Auschwitz Museum targeting to identifying how the signs are engendered. To elucidate this question will also make a desk research with 90 visitors of both museums, with the purpose of realize the possibilities of interpretations and reframing of spectators in relation to history and memory of the spaces. Summing up that even with a space for participation on the museums, the possibilities of involvement and comparison between them are strongly different, the seeking to knowledge to the detriment of the effects and to the experiences still being the manly reason that lead people to museums, in a emotional and energetic path, but aiming and destining to education and learning.