“Cool Japan” is a phrase coined after “Cool Britania,” which once functioned as a trademark celebrating the popularity of British pop culture in 1990s, and was rather indiscriminately used as a sign to reinforce self-confidence […]
Roy Harris (born 1931) is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics in the University of Oxford and the founder of a distinct approach to language and communication termed ‘integrational linguistics’ or ‘integrationism’. Prior to taking up […]
The International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication (IAISLC) was founded in 1998. The IAISLC Executive Committee currently comprises: Stephen J. Cowley (University of Hertfordshire, University of KwaZulu), Daniel R. Davis (University […]
Its publication started in September, 2009, Chinese Semiotic Studies (CSS) is an official academic journal sponsored by International Semiotic Research Institute of Nanjing Normal University and Chinese Semiotic Research Center of Chinese Association of Linguistic […]
Qualitative research is the rigorous attempt to produce findings or results by describing, explaining and/or interpreting qualitative patterns in terms of words, matrices, pictures, sounds, or other forms of representation; making qualitative research well-suited for […]
One of the current frontiers of science is the geology and biology of the deep sea. Glimpses of the ocean floor show dramatic landscapes of mountain chains, profound valleys, tumultuous volcanic vents that are teeming with puzzling forms of life which have evolved in these extreme, photonless environments. […]
So often, in language origins discussions, the ‘target to be explained in evolutionary terms is ‘language’ in the sense of the highly abstracted and idealized system that typically constitutes the object analyzed in linguistics. Although, indeed, an account of the development of such a system is needed, if the circumstances and manner of utterance production by actual human beings in concrete occasions of interaction is overlooked, important pieces of the puzzle we are trying to understand will almost certainly be missing. Two issues of importance with respect to this are outlined in what follows. […]
The writings of many semiologists are often dogmatically linked to the particular schools of thought to which they relate. By contrast, Andre Helbo has demonstrated in his publications a remarkable open-mindedness, a kind of fluidity […]
Semiotics publishing at De Gruyter Mouton has enjoyed a long and rich history, which began at Mouton (then The Hague, Netherlands) in 1969 with the launch of the journal Semiotica as the official journal of […]
The 4th conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS: http://www.gesturestudies.com/ ) was held this year in Frankfurt / Oder (Germany) at the European Viadrina University, July 25-30. It attracted over 400 participants representing […]
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