Review

GOMES-DA-SILVA, Pierre Normando. Semiótica dos jogos infantis. João Pessoa: Ed. Universitária da UFPB, 2015.

Abstract

In his book Semiotics of Children's Games, Pierre Normando Gomes-da-Silva places human movement and, consequently, Physical Education, in the field of language, specifically semiotics (French, American and Russian). He presents a theoretical framework and semiotic analysis designs that allow us to visualize and follow the production of meaning or semiosis that takes place in different children's games. The subject of learning was taken as the sign configuration of lived experiences, naming it corporeality. Movement as a motor sign is described as communicative occurrences, situations of movement which produce an affective ambience, temporality in which learning takes place, producing effects of interpretation in the participants, changing existential configurations.