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Hello! We hope you are well, in this world that is becoming more and more difficult. Despite the panorama, a few weeks ago we had the great opportunity to attend an important oasis of collaboration […]

The Fifth Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS-5)

The Fifth Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS-5) August 15-17, 2024, Lund, Sweden We are happy to host the Fifth Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS-5) at Lund University in August […]

Call for papers: Linguistics and Language Conference Online. Semiotics is listed among the themes. May 24, 2024.

LILA ’24 / X. International Linguistics and Language Studies Conference will be held in the form of an online event. The conference is coordinated by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center) and will be organized by […]

Pragmatics: Performance Poetry: The Practice

So I get on stage, finally, because the compere has just said my name. I’ve spent the last few minutesscanning the crowd as well as looking at my counterpart competitors in this slam poetrycompetition. I’m […]

Semiotics of Performance Poetry

By Chris Arning Many performers adopt ‘on stage personas’ or ‘adopt a mask’ when ‘in role’ on stage or in front of the camera. They ‘perform their identity’ as academic Judith Butler would have1 it. […]

Signs and symbols in space and place – Sites of memory in contemporary Europe and the U.S.

Ken Foote, University of Connecticut, USA Anett Árvay, University of Szeged, Hungary Sites of memory are often powerful symbols. Varying greatly in form, scale, and meaning, they range from massive memorials honoring key events in a […]

INTRODUCING A NEW RUBRIC: SEMIOTICS IN THE FIRST PERSON

Semiotics is not merely a set of theories and methods whose aim is to explore and explain various meaning-making processes through detached analytical discourses. It is also a cognitive experience that affects our ways of […]

A Smart Semiotics e-seminar took place May 9: Storytelling and the sense of place: Water power, landscape conservation, and the roles of narratives

A Smart Semiotics e-seminar took place May 9: Storytelling and the sense of place: Water power, landscape conservation, and the the roles of narratives. Matthias Egeler Concepts like home, dwelling, and a sense of place have […]

Congress Report – 8th annual SAS conference

By Alan Crawley From 15 to 18th April of 2021 the Society for Affective Science (SAS) organized their 8th annual conference being this their first time with online modality. The numbers of this event are […]

Smart Semiotics e-seminar April 11: The Social Semiotics of Populism

Smart Semiotics e-seminar April 11: The Social Semiotics of Populism. The words ‘populism’ and ‘populist’ have been extensively used over the last years to refer to disparate contemporary political phenomena around the globe, ranging from […]

New Issue and new Call for papers of Punctum-International Journal of Semiotics

We are pleased to announce for Semiotix the publication of the Volume 6, Issue 2 (2020) of Punctum-International Journal of Semiotics, the online, open-access journal of the Hellenic Semiotic Society. This issue is devoted to […]

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LAUNCHING A NEW PLATFORM: SMART SEMIOTICS

E-SEMINARS AND E-INSTITUTES TO BE SCHEDULED IN 2021 AND BEYOND STAY IN THE LOOP: GET INFORMED / GET NOTIFIED / CHECK THE TIME FIRST E-SEMINAR: THE COLORS OF IDEOLOGY SPEAKER: GRIGORIS PASCHALIDIS, THESSALONIKI DATE: MARCH […]

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LAUNCHING A NEW PLATFORM: SMART SEMIOTICS

Relevance: the key to visual & multimodal (and all other) communication

Charles Forceville Dept. of Media Studies University of Amsterdam Introduction Humanities disciplines have contributed many crucial insights to understanding how communication and interpretation works – think of rhetoric, linguistics, semiotics, metaphor theory, blending theory, […]

SemiotiX Review of Books: Catholic Semiotics

By Robert Yelle Domenico Pietropaolo’s book, Semiotics of the Christian Imagination, is a new entry in Bloomsbury’s Advances in Semiotics series. It is a sensitive, erudite, and subtle interpretation of a fairly wide range of […]

News from SemioticaStudio

By Gabriella and Ximena We hope you’ve kept safe and healthy in these unusual times. We’d like to thank all of you who contacted us for diverse projects, and also —thinking about the longer hours […]

Obituary: Roland Posner (1939-2020)

By Veronika Opletalová & Martin Siefkes Roland Posner (1939-2020) was a German semiotician who has been a major influence in both linguistics (pragmatics, text linguistics) and semiotics in Germany since the 1970s. He is recognized for […]

Sign Worlds, a Newsletter aimed at promoting the awareness of sign processes.

The House of Signs, a foundation dedicated to the semiotic legacy of Martin Krampen, launches Sign Worlds, a Newsletter aimed at promoting the awareness of sign processes.

Governance by Medical Models: Eight Semiotic Principles

By Gary Genosko Governance by medical modelling is the attempt to make reality conform to predictions and projections. There is a political imperative in now familiar exhortations, that require broad legislative and regulatory changes that […]

Sign Worlds, a Newsletter aimed at promoting the awareness of sign processes.

The House of Signs, a foundation dedicated to the semiotic legacy of Martin Krampen, launches Sign Worlds, a Newsletter aimed at promoting the awareness of sign processes.

Governance by Medical Models: Eight Semiotic Principles

OBITUARY

Paolo Fabbri Since June 2, the international semiotic community laments the loss of one of its most distinguished and dedicated members. After graduating from the University of Florence (1962) Paolo Fabbri (b. Rimini, 1939) continued […]

From the Editorial Team

Those who have now by force more time on their hands may take this opportunity to explore the resources of the https://semioticontest.local For instance, clicking on Archives at the top of the SemiotiX page will open […]

Multiculturalism as multimodal communication: a semiotic perspective By Alin Olteanu

By Alin Olteanu The aim of my recent book, Multiculturalism as multimodal communication: a semiotic perspective (2019) is to develop a criticism of culturalism based on semiotic theory. In the greater picture of humanistic research, […]

Sex, Art, and Semiosis

A new course by Per Aage Brandt is now available in the Semiotic Institute Online. It consists of twelve inspiring lessons that the authors had first ironically titled “Crumbs”. SemiotiX features here the fourth lesson. […]

PROLEGOMENA TO A NEW LANGUAGE SCIENCE

By Alexander V. Kravchenko The problem with language as a symbolic system In mainstream linguistics and cognitive science language is viewed as a symbolic system – a set of abstract forms that somehow relate […]

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