Call for Papers: Special issue of Semiotika (2027) on the sociocriticism

The 2027 issue of Semiotika will be devoted to reflecting on the relationship between sociocriticism (the sociology of text) and sociosemiotics. Sociocriticism proposes looking for sociality not beyond the text but within the text itself and considers semiotic text analysis one of the main tools for reconstructing sociality. This field of research considers context, primarily a social one, not as something external to the discourses of literature, cinema, and visual arts, but as part of those discourses themselves. By choosing to analyze social, historical, or ideological in a text and revealing that a work of art belongs to the cultural paradigm of a particular era, sociocritics give priority to text analysis, assuming that sociality can be reconstructed from the text itself, that the text is so powerful that “the reading can draw both the premises of its emergence and the consequences of its existence” (Pierre Barbéris). Sociocriticism is an interdisciplinary approach that uses various tools of textual analysis (e.g., semiotics, intertextuality theory, and visual studies) and combines them with historical and sociological interpretation. We invite the researchers to submit articles offering original sociocritical interpretations of texts and theoretical discussions for this thematic issue of the journal.

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