Issues

Globalization and the Production of Linguistic Locality

Attention to linguistic variation worldwide is evidenced in efforts to document or revive dying languages; in political struggles over language and dialect rights, national languages, and language in education; and in the commodification of languages […]

Guest column

Semiotics and Copy-writing

Studying advertising: why and how It is hard not to notice that advertising functions as one of the most proliferated narrative generators, producing dozens of narratives that our environment becomes enveloped in. Admittedly, creativity is […]

Semiotic Profile

The Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday

When I joined Continuum (which is now part of the Bloomsbury Academic Group) back in 2007, the publishing of Professor Michael Halliday’s “Collected Works” was in full motion. It had a staggered release.  The first […]

Semiotix XN-11 (2013)

World report: Lithuania

The new International Semiotics Institute After 25 years of activity in Imatra, Finland, from January 2014 the International Semiotics Institute will move to Kaunas, Lithuania, in the premises of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts […]

Issues

CONSIDER VEXILLOLOGY.

Have you ever heard of vexillology ? Sometimes it appears as the final category on Jeopardy; it is also the focus of a mythical podcast by Dr. Sheldon Cooper, one of the main characters on […]

Semiotix XN-9 (2012)

A Graduate Seminar in Educational Semiotics

Applied Semiotics for Deep Education at the University of Wisconsin – Madison Graduate Seminar in Educational Semiotics. François Victor Tochon is Professor at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. He works in Curriculum & Instruction in the School of […]

Semiotic Profile

A Semiotic Profile: Donald Preziosi

Donald Preziosi is Emeritus Professor of Art History at the University of California – Los Angeles and pioneer in visual semiotics in the United States and influential theoretician of art history and museology. His Rethinking Art […]

Semiotix XN-11 (2013)

World report: Mexico

The Semiotics of Terror   The Semiotics of Terror is a line of research currently underway that seeks to define the prototypical mechanisms of signification of the genre Terror in its various modes of textualization, […]