Editorial
I ♥ Face Book
“Waste of time”, “intrusive”, “vain”, these are the words I hear from colleagues who swear they will never succumb to the Face Book craze. I beg to differ. It is true that endless successions of […]
Semiotix XN-12 (2014)
Featured
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; […]
Semiotix XN-12 (2014)
Being sociable on web TV
What kind of interactional situation does the image below show? One guy is intensely occupied with writing on his keyboard while the other guy next to him is pointing to something on his laptop screen, […]
Semiotix XN-12 (2014)
Belligerent broadcasting: antagonism in media talk”?
We begin with the following exchange from a 2012 interview between BBC journalist Jeremy Paxman and Treasury Minister Chloe Smith; an example of what Richards (2007: 73) calls “Rottweiler” interviewing: JP: Do you ever wake […]
Semiotix XN-12 (2014)
How neutral? Journalists taking a stance in political news interviews
Live interviews with politicians on Greek news Evening news is largely offered to Greek national audiences through the process of live conversation among journalists, or between journalists and politicians, appearing in a visual format of […]
Guest column
Toward a Semiotics of Rest at The Hub at Wellcome Collection
There’s nothing I want but money in time Million dollar bills in a tick tick tick tick tick … There’s nothing as fun as coming untied And running with the kids in the park park […]
Semiotix XN-12 (2014)
A Vision for Semiotics: The SSA’s 39th Annual Meeting and Beyond
There is an equal mix of inspiration and enthusiasm in the air as the Semiotic Society of America prepares to celebrate its fortieth year in 2015 and gears up for its 39th Annual Meeting this fall. This […]
Semiotix XN-12 (2014)
World Report: From Morocco
The project of this book goes back to approximately 10 years. I came then to collaborate with Beatrice Fink to a special issue of Eighteenth Century Life on the food topography. I proposed then a […]
Semiotix XN-12 (2014)
Lectures on the Epistemology of Semiotics
The book entitled as Lectures on the Epistemology of Semioticsconsists of eight lectures pertaining to theoretical issues and three supplements exemplifying the applicative values of selected conceptions in the domain of semiotic studies. Separately detached […]
Semiotix XN-12 (2014)
Semiotics and Rhythm of film: Hollywoodian cinema compared to Cinema Novo.
The purpose of this research is to investigate the semiotic structure of contemporary Hollywoodian cinema following a Greimassian approach. The distinction between content plane and expression plane (Greimas, 1979) is used to study the rhythm […]