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 […]
Sections
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-7 (2012)
Poland’s Copernicus University to foster experimental semiotics research
Interview with Dr. Tomasz Komendzinski Translated & edited by Mikolaj Sobocinski I understand that you are creating an innovative pluridisciplinary centre at the Copernicus University in Torun (Poland). What is the purpose of this centre […]
Guest column
Toward Social Neuroscience
As a psychiatrist and lecturer in experimental psychiatry and social neuroscience, I am interested in how human beings understand and make sense of each other. My research is based on the assumption that social cognition […]
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, […]
Issues
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 […]
Featured
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-7 (2012)
World Report – Epistemological Perspective on Simulation
Simulation is a creative and epistemologically-delicate process that has attracted growing attention since the 1990s, both in the natural and the social sciences. It is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or […]