Highlights

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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. […]