The
purpose of this site is to provide innovative, responsible
and reliable knowledge in a variety of domains relevant to
semiotics understood as the multidisciplinary study of information,
meaning, communication, interpretation, sign systems and
evolution, texts, interactions, organizations, cultural and
social transformations, sense-making and all other topics
that may emerge from future research, models and theories.
Information
All texts
put online are signed by specialists who can be directly
accessed through their e-mail addresses. The texts remain
the intellectual property of their authors, who hold the
copyrights.
The Public Journal of Semiotics,
a new periodic publication online, has been launched this month.
The first issue is expected to
appear in 2006. It will be accessible, free of charge, to anyone
interested in the development of semiotics in dialogue with
the social, formal and natural sciences. It will endeavor to
promote high standards of semiotic scholarship through a robust
peer-review policy.
Researchers in any field that bears upon
some aspects of the questions raised by the broad epistemological
program of semiotics are welcome to submit articles.
All relevant
information can be found on the website http://semiotics.ca.
Visitors are invited to register and create their own password
in order to access the members' page which includes the
template for submitting articles.