World Report

“Cool Japan” is a phrase coined after “Cool Britania,” which once functioned as a trademark celebrating the popularity of British pop culture in 1990s, and was rather indiscriminately used as a sign to reinforce self-confidence […]

The International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication (IAISLC) was founded in 1998. The IAISLC Executive Committee currently comprises: Stephen J. Cowley (University of Hertfordshire, University of KwaZulu), Daniel R. Davis (University […]

Qualitative research is the rigorous attempt to produce findings or results by describing, explaining and/or interpreting qualitative patterns in terms of words, matrices, pictures, sounds, or other forms of representation; making qualitative research well-suited for […]

The 4th conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS: http://www.gesturestudies.com/ ) was held this year in Frankfurt / Oder (Germany) at the European Viadrina University, July 25-30.  It attracted over 400 participants representing […]

Organized by Simone Pika (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany) & Katja Liebal (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) The Primate Gesture Center The study of primate communication started with an emphasis on facial displays, which offered the most […]

Social Semiotics, published by Taylor & Francis, is a journal that has been returning to its roots over the past seven years. The journal was first established in the early 1980s by a group of scholars in Australia, including Gunter Kress, Theo Van Leeuwen, Anne Cranny Francis and Terry Threadgold. […]

Networked Humanities: Art History on the Web is a joint ESF-COST Conference being held between October 9th and 14th 2010 in Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy. […]

2009 IFIP WG8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations: Information systems in the changing era: theory and practice […]