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News from Australia

Southern Semiotic Review – new journal initiative It is pleasing to announce publication of the first issue of “Southern Semiotic Review”. The initial online version offers a range of quality articles, and can be found […]

Semiotix XN-9 (2012)

Tartu and the MA in Semiotics: four years after

Started in the fall of 2009, the International Master’s Programme in Semiotics taught at the University of Tartu, has now turned four. As Anti Randviir (senior researcher of sociosemiotics) pointed out during the last graduation […]

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Coerced iconicity in writing and speech

Humans are iconophiles: we love to connect form and meaning, and do so even when it doesn’t seem warranted. This holds for writing as well as for speech. The writing system of Chinese is a […]

Semiotix XN-11 (2013)

World report: Spain

The XVth Congress of the Spanish Association of Semiotics set a reflection on analytical categories of time, temporality and temporalization and their theoretical success within the field of Semiotics. The aim was to explore how […]

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Semiotics in Morocco

The Moroccan Association of Semiotics Studies (MASS) was founded in 2008 by a group of scholars belonging to the Universities of Fes, Meknes, Ifrane, Rabat, Agadir and Oujda. Mass has organized two congress in 2008 […]

Semiotix XN-9 (2012)

The Front Shelf

The Language of Life: How Communication Drives Human Evolution. By James Lull and Eduardo Neiva. New York: Prometheus Books, 2012 (272 pages). This book deserves a wide exposure among the various semiotic communities at a […]

In Memoriam

Omar Calabrese 1949-2012

On Saturday, March 31, 2012, Omar Calabrese succumbed to a heart attack in his home in Monteriggioni, Siena. Born in Florence on June 2, 1949, Calabrese has been a key-figure in semiotics and a protagonist […]

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Meet your publisher: a post-scriptum

“Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders, I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait. “   — Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”   […]

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Editorial: Why study media talk ?

In this editorial and the accompanying three texts we present a certain take on analyzing the details of communication in the media, a perspective now often described as the media talk approach (see Hutchby 2006; […]