On the Eve of the 12th World Congress of IASS/AIS in Sofia – Eero Tarasti

Eero Tarasti:  Presidential Address on the Eve of the 12th World Congress of IASS/AIS in Sofia “Semiotics harms no one”, once wrote our British, or rather Scotch, colleague Raymond Monelle.  Someone also said that semiotics never dies. But how can it survive in the contemporary world under many kinds of threats?  One threat in those…

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CFP: 10th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, 26-28 March

2015 University of Tübingen, Germany Tenth International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, 26-28 March 2015 The tenth in a series of biennial international and interdisciplinary symposia organized by the Iconicity Research Project since 1997, this meeting will once again focus on iconicity – understood as form miming meaning and form, and meaning miming…

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The American Journal of Semiotics Vol. 30, Issue 1/2, 2014

The American Journal of Semiotics Volume 30, Issue 1/2, 2014 Peirce and the Cenoscopic Science of Signs John Deely (editor-in-chief) and Christopher Morrissey (editor) Articles 1.Priscila Borges, Experience and Cognition in Peirce’s Semiotics 2. Garnet C. Butchart, Haunting Past Images: On the 2006 Documentary Film Description of a Memory in the Context of Communicology 3. Gilad Elbom,…

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New book: The Semiotics of Animal Representations – Edited by Kadri Tüür and Morten Tønnessen

The Semiotics of Animal Representations Edited by Kadri Tüür and Morten Tønnessen Amsterdam/New York, NY 2014. 376 pp. (Nature, Culture and Literature 10) ISBN: 978-90-420-3827-1                     Paper €80,-/US$112,- ISBN: 978-94-012-1072-0                     E-Book €72,-/US$101,- Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=NCL+10 The ways in which we represent animals say much about who we are, who we strive to be, and our often…

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New book: Lectures on the Epistemology of Semiotics, Zdzisław Wąsik

The book has been published in print and there is a pdf version available here. Zdzisław Wąsik. 2014. Lectures on the Epistemology of Semiotics. Wrocław: Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław Publishing / Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Filologicznej we Wrocławiu (Philologica Wratislaviensia: Series Didactica. Vol. 1. Edited by Zdzisław Wąsik). 236 pp. ISBN 978-83-60097-24-3 https://wsf.academia.edu/ZdzislawWasik

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12th IASS-AIS Congress – Sofia: First draft program

Dear colleagues, Here is the first draft of the program of the forthcoming IASS/AIS world congress: http://semio2014.org/en/Preliminary-program to a certain extent it is open to feedback and adjustments according to the plans of the participants. The single participants should address their preferences to their chairpersons and the chairpersons should suggest to us the change, but…

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