DU SOURIRE DE MONA LISE AU SOURIRE DE BOUDDHA
FROM THE SMILE OF MONA LISE TO THE SMILE OF BUDDHA

Summary/Abstract: In our article, we trace the essential features of a semiotics of the smile and the marks of laughter at the bodily level. This bodily symptom shows an emotional state that carries meaning and the measure of a certain degree of soul immersion in different states of consciousness. But the context of this symptom is one that gives it a very wide range of meanings. By "meaning" at the bodily level we also understand the linguistic meaning - or a linguistic manifestation - but also the concomitant manifestation where language and referent overlap, as in music. The smile seems to be the point of balance between explosive laughter and the "serious mine" or neutral facial expressions that one could have. Our method of analysis focuses on the semiotics of passions, while drawing on the support of art history

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