New Book: Mathematics as a Modeling System: a Semiotic Approach by Marcel Danesi and Mariana Bockarova

“Serendipity, inference, and abduction present opportunities for solutions to the puzzles appealing to humans, mathematicians included. When successful, these intuitive semiosic leaps find pattern, even when the pattern may not be explained beyond the frame of the puzzle. In foregrounding abduction, Danesi and Bockarova refresh ancient queries about any distinctions between discovery and invention. The…

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2nd volume of the International Journal of Marketing Semiotics

www.ijmarketingsemiotics.com http://ijmarketingsemiotics.com/journal-contents-2/ PRESS RELEASE: LAUNCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARKETING SEMIOTICS (IJMS) VOL.II We are pleased to announce the launch of the second issue of the International Journal of Marketing Semiotics. Almost three years have elapsed since the official release of the International Journal of Marketing Semiotics. During this period we have witnessed an…

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Detailed program / Programa detallada / Programme détaillé Semio2014 – 12th World Congress of Semiotics IASS

Dear participants to the world congress of semiotics, This is the first draft of the preliminary detailed program, please have a look and if you do not see your name and title write to us (info@semio2014.org), there are certain proposals still under evaluation, but the majority of them should be there. We cannot reschedule entire…

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CFP: Lexia n. 19

Lexia n. 19: Food and Cultural Identity Lexia n. 19: Cibo e identità culturale Lexia n. 19: Alimentation et identité culturelle Lexia n. 19: Comida e identidad cultural Download PDF: Lexia n. 19 Call for Papers Lexia, the international, peer-reviewed journal of CIRCE, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Communication of the University of Torino, Italy,…

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Roundtable “Existential Semiotics” at 12th World Congress of Semiotics

Roundtable “Existential Semiotics” directed by Eero Tarasti and Zdzisław Wąsik at the 12th World Congress of Semiotics: New Semiotics. Between Tradition and Innovation, Sofia 16-20 September 2014. See: http://semio2014.org/en/existential-semiotics The PDF document of Existential Semiotics Tarasti & Wasik Roundtable Semio2014, (in the attachment) to be downloded, is avaialble here: http://wsf.academia.edu/ZdzislawWasik

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Published new issue 15-16 of Lexia Journal of Semiotics

Download presentation-PDF: Lexia 15-16 – Ecstasy – Presentation Materials Estasi Ecstasy È estatico ogni discorso che, costruendosi nel linguaggio e col linguaggio, rappresenta nondimeno una fuoriuscita da esso, un bloccarsi della semiosi, un venir meno delle distinzioni che fondano il senso. Trattasi dunque di un’impostura? Dell’evocazione impossibile, fra le maglie dell’immanenza, di una dimensione trascendente nella quale e verso la…

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