The development of linguistic pragmatics from the 1960’s onwards may be interpreted, in a way, as a ‘glottocentric’ move away from its parental home, the science of signs or semiotics. In principle, a focus on […]
‘There’s no there there,’ Gertrude Stein famously said of Oakland, California. What she meant, of course, was that she could find nothing in Oakland that made it different from anywhere else, nothing that caught her […]
Sociolinguistics is the study of the relationship between language and society. Can social structure, social context, social ideas, values and identities influence the way we can and do use language? And conversely, can our ways […]
Take a walk through any upmarket shopping mall (frequently referred to as a ‘gallery’ implying artful displays of precious, highly desirable and – to many – unattainable objects) and you will find numerous instances of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Hellenic Semiotic Society, founded in 1977, held its last International Conference at the University of Cyprus (Nicosia), in November 2010, on the topic of ‘The Everyday’. It recently organised the 3rd annual ‘Young Scholars […]
On March 11 The Japan Times reported the death at 81 in Tokyo of “influential anthropologist Masao Yamaguchi”. Professor Yamaguchi was also a high-profile semiotician, a long-time Vice-President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, […]
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