Fascination is a double-edged mental phenomenon. It captures and mobilizes our attention, and facilitates our absorption of the information a particular pattern foregrounds. But it also neutralizes our critical power. Some predators are wont to […]
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, […]
Semiotica botanica Some four decades ago, German semiotician, artist, and architect Martin Krampen coined the term phytosemiotics (from the Ancient Greek word for plant). Based on the fragile evidence available at the time, he claimed […]
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, […]
Evolutionary semiotics is a hot frontier in contemporary research. How modern humans reached the cognitive and communicative capacities which characterize us can be traced back through an examination of the archaeological record. Stages of mental […]
Space has more than three dimensions. Our sense of space is generated by movement, that is, by time. But space is foremost a multimodal experience: visual, tactile, auditory, olfactory, and gustative. There is also an […]
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 […]
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Semiotic Review, which continues the Semiotic Review of Books [1990-2012], with our first thematic issue, guest-edited by Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Parasites. As incoming editors, we (Paul Manning […]
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 […]
Introduction: sociolinguistics and globalisation Since the turn of the Millennium, globalization has become a major focus in sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, investigating themes such as: learning and teaching in diverse urban classrooms (Spotti 2011; Karrebæk […]
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