"Les catégories métriques en sémiotique"

The present article seeks to erect format, which is inherent to the form modalized by space and modalizing it in return, as a category of analysis. The aim is to describe the manifestations of format : size (maxi and mini, macro and micro), volume, mass and weight. The attention is focused on the (dis)proportions and the changes of scale as well as on the effects produced on a not only perceptivocognitive, but sensitive instance. More particularly, the article wonders about the sublime, the kitsch and the monstrous, by identifying an axiological base, according to specific aesthetics.