Year: 2016

By Pierre Pellegrino, Honorary President of the International Association for the Semiotics of Space. Martin Krampen died a few months ago, we honor here his memory. He was a leading figure in the German semiotics […]

By Paul Bouissac New study of infant marmosets, Callithrix jacchus, yields insights into the development of vocal learning that are relevant across species, including Homo. Rather than being the “hopeful monster” of Chomskyan lore, this […]

By Jamin Pelkey. Can Semiotics progress? Anyone too eager to answer “yes” to this question might do well to pause for a moment of reflection: What conditions would be necessary to warrant this response? Presumably these […]

A review of Josh Berson’s Computable Bodies (Bloomsbury, 2016, 186 pages) By Michael W. Mair Josh Berson is very ambitious. His book endeavours to bridge neuroscience, anthropology, computer science, and the concept of data itself, […]

By Carel van Schaik Culture has traditionally been considered a major dividing line between humans and animals. This position has stood largely unchallenged until the 1990s, even though the Japanese zoologist Kinji Imanishi (cited in […]

  As a commercial semiotician and qualitative market researcher, I conduct a considerable amount of qualitative market research on proposed packaging design. Over the last several years, my colleagues and I have realized that many […]