The tourist semiosis of lake landscapes through aesthetics and perfomativities

Jaciel Gustavo Kunz; Antonio Carlos Castrogiovanni; Michelle M. Metro-Roland

doi:10.25145/j.pasos.2025.23.023

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Jaciel Gustavo Kunz Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0578-2457
Antonio Carlos Castrogiovanni Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul ( https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2146-9700
Michelle M. Metro-Roland Western Michigan University https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5193-9101

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https://doi.org/10.25145/j.pasos.2025.23.023

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Paisajes lacustres, Semiótica Peirceana, Estética, Performance, Laguna Merín

Resumen

Movilizamos la Semiótica para un examen más cercano de las representaciones visuales de paisajes lacustres y las performatividades corporales, específicamente empleando la distinción tipo/token, una característica destacada del modelo de signo de Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914). Por lo tanto, el objetivo principal fue abordar la siguiente pregunta desde un laboratorio empírico semiótico del Sur, la Laguna Merín (Brasil/Uruguay): ¿Cómo encuentran los turistas y buscadores de ocio los paisajes lacustres y les dan sentido en términos estéticos y performativos? Aplicamos un enfoque metodológico cualitativo basado en información visual y textual, seguido de un análisis interpretativo informado por la distinción y la complementariedad tipo/token. Los visitantes se relacionan con los paisajes lacustres visualmente, corporalmente y performativamente en lo que respecta a la materialidad de estos paisajes vacacionales. La mirada colectiva complementa y se enfrenta a la mirada conservadora de estos paisajes, aún centrada en el Romanticismo. Después de avanzar en la comprensión actual de estos fenómenos interrelacionados, planteamos algunas preguntas para un examen más profundo, acompañadas de implicaciones prácticas.

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Antonio Carlos Castrogiovanni, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (

Ph.D. in Communication (PUC-RS). Professor in Geography with a long experience in Tourism as well.

Michelle M. Metro-Roland, Western Michigan University

Ph.D. in Geography (Indiana University at Bloomington). We works for the Department of Geography and for the Haenicke Institute for Global Education.

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