New issue of Lexia: Semiotics and Digital Marketing

Edited by Cinzia Bianchi and Giovanna Cosenza Oggi la semiotica può dialogare con il Digital Marketing in molti ambiti. Fra questi, ci sono gli studi e le attività di Search Engine Optimization (SEO), il Digital Storytelling, il mondo della Web Usability e dell’Interface Design, l’analisi della User Experience (UX), le ricerche sulla viralità online, il…

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Special Issue of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law: “The Reasonable Interpreter. Perspectives on Legal and Non-Legal Semiotics”

Edited by Angela Condello, Paolo Heritier, Massimo Leone & Jenny Ponzo The origin of the present issue lies in a number of questions which intersect both the fields of semiotics and of legal philosophy and theory, especially concerning the nature and function of languages, and the function of reasonableness and interpretation in the balancing of…

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Lecciones de semiótica «Paolo Fabbri»: «La mirada semiótica», Jorge Lozano

El Grupo de Estudios de Semiótica de la Cultura (GESC), en colaboración con el Programa de Doctorado en Periodismo de la UCM, continúa este nuevo curso académico con sus Lecciones de semiótica y ha elaborado un programa de conferencias que girarán en torno a la relevancia del método semiótico como instrumento de análisis de la cultura contemporánea….

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New Book: Les histoires qui nous sont racontées. De l’exclusion par les causalités narratives au transculturel dans les littératures des Amériques

Auteur: Patrick Imbert Les romans, nouvelles et récits des Amériques s’ouvrent de plus en plus aux altérités et ainsi se rejoignent dans leurs dynamiques. Leur structure narrative est fondée sur le schéma de Greimas et mène à la transformation de contenus à partir de temporalités/causalités qui s’enchaînent. Les causalités justifient des exclusions comme barbarie/civilisation. Elles…

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Tenth conversation session in the IASS AIS 2020 Early Career Researchers series

The Academic Committee of Early Career Researchers is pleased to invite you to the tenth conversation session of the IASS-AIS 2020 series. The main topic of this talk will be: Biosemiotics and multiculturalism and it will be held on Tuesday, October 06th, 2020 at 10:00 (Colombia time TOC) / 16:00 (Europe time GMT+1), 17:00 (Europe time GMT+2)….

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Online Course on the Semiotics of John Deely

Tutor: Brian Kemple Semiotics–toward which human beings took their first explicit steps in the beginning of the Latin Age of philosophy, in the work of St. Augustine of Hippo–is that by which we begin in a true postmodernism. This is one of the key and perhaps surprising claims of John Deely (1942–2017). That is, often today what is called…

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New Book: Introducing Relational Political Analysis. Political Semiotics as a Theory and Method

By Peeter Selg and Andreas Ventsel This book introduces relational thinking to political analysis. Instead of merely providing an overview of possible trajectories for articulating a relational political analysis, Peeter Selg and Andreas Ventsel put forth a concrete relational theory of the political, which has implications for research methodology, culminating in a concrete method they…

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New Book: Strategic Conspiracy Narratives. A Semiotic Approach

By Mari-Liis Madisson and Andreas Ventsel Strategic Conspiracy Narratives proposes an innovative semiotic perspective for analysing how contemporary conspiracy theories are used for shaping interpretation paths and identities of a targeted audience. Conspiracy theories play a significant role in the viral spread of misinformation that has an impact on the formation of public opinion about certain…

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New Book: Persona by Claudio Paolucci

Persona. Soggettività nel linguaggio e semiotica dell’enunciazione (Bompiani 2020) Per la lingua italiana, la persona è l’individuo; per l’etimologia è la maschera; per il teatro è il personaggio; per la linguistica è la categoria in cui si esprime la soggettività. E per la semiotica? La teoria dell’enunciazione dice che l’io della lingua è un messaggero…

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3rd Edition of the International Conference on Web Studies

Track chairs:• Everardo Reyes (Université Paris 8, France)• Mark Bernstein (Eastgate Systems, USA)• Giancarlo Ruffo (Università di Torino, Italy) The international conference on Web Studies is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed scientific gathering that investigates the World Wide Web as an object of inquiry. It conceives the Web as an expansive entity: an extended space that reaches…

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