Call for papers: Tourist Spaces – Between Practices and Theories – University of Palermo, July 7-8-9, 2011

Call for papers  Tourist Spaces Between Practices and Theories International Conference University of Palermo, July 7-8-9, 2011 Deadline for receiving abstracts: June 10, 2011 This conference represents the second phase of a joint reflection, conducted by anthropologists, semioticians and geographers, on the issue of tourist theories and practices. During the first conference (Tourism belongs to…

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Call for papers: 1st International Conference on Semiotics and Visual Communication

Call for papers 1st International Conference on Semiotics and Visual Communication Date: 25-Nov-2011 – 27-Nov-2011 Location: Limassol, Cyprus The department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology is organizing the 1st International Conference on Semiotics and Visual Communication themed ‘From Theory to Practice’ (25-27 November 2011). The conference aims at exploring the broad subject…

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Victoria Welby and Significs: Essays for a Special Issue of Semiotica

Victoria Welby and Significs Essays for a Special Issue of Semiotica 15 April 2011 Dear colleagues and friends: Marcel Danesi, as Editor-in-Chief of Semiotica, has asked me to Guest-Edit a Special Issue on Victoria Welby, occasioned by the book I have published with Mouton (2009), Signifying and Understanding. Reading the works of Victoria Welby and…

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Call for papers: Analysing Multimodal Discourse: Systemic Functional Linguistics Meets Pragmatics

You are invited to submit papers for our forthcoming conference, Analysing Multimodal Discourse: Systemic Functional Linguistics Meets Pragmatics, which will take place from 1-3 September 2011, at the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University. Individual paper proposals of no more than 350 words (max and including references, if necessary) are invited. The deadline…

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1st International Conference on Semiotics and Visual Communication

1st International Conference on Semiotics and Visual Communication Date: 25-Nov-2011 – 27-Nov-2011 Location: Limassol, Cyprus The department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology is organizing the 1st International Conference on Semiotics and Visual Communication themed ‘From Theory to Practice’ (25-27 November 2011). The conference aims at exploring the broad subject…

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CALL FOR PARTICIPANCE: Tartu Summer School of Semiotics

CALL FOR PARTICIPANCE: Tartu Summer School of Semiotics Tartu Summer School of Semiotics is a new series of gatherings that brings together representatives of semiotics and related disciplines with the aim to provide an environment to converse about core issues in semiotics that are of disciplinary as well as transdisciplinary relevance. Summer School 2011 is five-day…

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Chinese Semiotic Studies – Call for Papers

Call for Papers Chinese Semiotic Studies Sponsored by The International Institute of Semiotic Studies of Nanjing Normal University & The Chinese Semiotic Research Center of the Chinese Association of Linguistic Semiotics, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210097, China Published by Nanjing Normal University Press, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210097, China General requirements: Chinese Semiotic Studies cordially welcomes papers with creative…

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List of Plenary Speakers at the 11th IASS Congress, Nanjing 2012

List of Plenary Speakers at the 11th IASS Congress, Nanjing 2012 南京第11届国际符号学大会大会级发言名单 1.(Germany) Bernhard Waldenfels (as the guest openning speaker): Signs and Phenomena. Phenomenological-Semiotic Considerations B. 瓦登费尔思(德):记号和现象。现象学-符号学的思考(开幕式客座讲演) 2.(France) Jacques Fontanille: The figures of the body and the semiotics of footprint J.丰塔尼耶(法):身体修辞格和足印符号学 3.(Finland) Eero Tarasti: Semiotics as the transcultural metalanguage E.塔拉斯梯(芬):符号学作为跨文化的元语言 4.(China) Zhang Jie: Reception and…

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Membership Letter

PRESIDENTIAL ADRESS OF THE IASS/AIS Helsinki, Feb 1st, 2011 English – Française – Español – Deutsch Dear semioticians, As you may know, the IASS/AIS was established over 40 years ago in Paris as a result of the work some leading semioticians of the time: Benveniste, Sebeok, Lévi-Strauss, Jakobson, Greimas, Eco, Kristeva and others. From the…

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