The Modality of Believing and the Concessive in an Analysis of Desiderio Blanco's Eucharistic Rite

Abstract

“El rito de la misa como práctica significante” is part of the set of texts that Desiderio Blanco published in 2009 under the title Vigencia de la semiótica. This book was animated by the objective of reintroducing Greimasian semiotics reformulated in part thanks to the new categories, schemes and models developed mainly by Jacques Fontanille and Claude Zilberberg since the 1990s. In that book, he also tested the immense analytical possibilities of tensive schemata and of the model of semiotics of practices formulated by Jacques Fontanille. In this direction, this paper discusses the use of the notion of concession in the rite of the Eucharist and makes some clarifications about the modality of believing.