Highlights

By Sebastian Moreno The first week of November 2024 was a busy one for European semiotics. From 6 to 8 November, the 20 th International Congress of the Spanish Semiotics Association (AES) took place in […]

Review – Aroni, Gabriele 2022. The Semiotics of Architecture in Video Games. London: Bloomsbury AcademicFederico Bellentani, Gianmarco Thierry Giuliana The Semiotics of Architecture in Video Games by Gabriele Aroni explores how architecture in video games […]

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) 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 the roles of narratives. Matthias Egeler Concepts like home, dwelling, and a sense of place have […]