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The zoosemiotic page: Wolf Matters

Learning about the social lives of other species, such as wolves (Canis lupus), is complicated by the difficulty of observing them in the wild.  Over the past few decades, increased opportunities to observe pack life […]

Guest column

The Zoosemiotic Page: Wolf Matters

Learning about the social lives of other species, such as wolves (Canis lupus), is complicated by the difficulty of observing them in the wild.  Over the past few decades, increased opportunities to observe pack life […]

Issues

Before Sight

Before sight there were touch and smell, both in our evolutionary and developmental past. Scant attention has been paid, though, to tactile, gustatory, and olfactory information in the semiotic literature. By contrast, visual and acoustic […]

Editorial

Editorial: Brain Alight

Contemporary semiotics is rich in various models and methods which have clustered over the years to form hybrid descriptive tools. Most approaches are unashamedly eclectic and researchers usually engage in heuristics rather than in some […]

Featured

Beware Signifiers: Progression of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish Signage Board

This began as an exploration of messages in our society. How do we develop these messages? Produce and distribute these messages? What are the aesthetic principles to these messages? I’m searching for a bloodline that rings throughout the entire platform of communication tactics, hoping that the sum is directly reflective when analyzing its parts. I started out thinking about these messages objectively but was quick to realize that when dealing with messages, you’re not just looking at how a sign looks and where it’s placed; you’re dealing with its words and indefinitely words aren’t without their healthy dose of subtext. This isn’t simply an exploration into messages; this is a scope into communication, leading to ideals, leading to communities, leading to humanity. Messages are representative of us, a modern trail of breadcrumbs, leading us to what we hope will manifest itself into validity or some sort of raw truth. […]

Issues

World Report: The Peirce Edition Project

  Foreword: Visiting the Peirce Edition Project Looking backward, any scholar can probably identify the precise moment in which her researches took a sudden and decisive turn, thus shaping the rest of her academic life. […]

Issues

Semiotics in Poland

In 2008 Polskie Towarzystwo Semiotyczne [Polish Semiotic Society  (PSS)]  begun its fifth decade of existence. Since the very beginning (1968), PSS has been acting  on many areas of theoretical and applied semiotics including linguistics, logic, […]