deSignis begins 2026 with the launch of its new issue, No. 44, dedicated to the semiotics of consumption. deSignis’ issue 44, Semiotics of consumption ritual, was edited by Paulina Gómez Lorenzini, Bruno Pompeu, and Clotilde Perez. Semiotics of consumption rituals, deSignis 44, is available in open access on: https://www.designisfels.net/publicacion/semiotica-de-los-rituales-de-consumo
Crucq, Arthur. Motifs in Art as Agents of Meaning. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2025 Departing from a metaphorical comparison by Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti between the underlying principles of drawing and weaving, this book will show how seemingly abstract motifs in their realization already acquire the potential to refer to content. This opens a…
Martinelli, Dario. (2025). Here Comes the Sign: The Semiotics of Popular Music. Cham: Springer This text is an original and unique introduction to musical semiotics through the use of popular music acts and repertoires of global cultural impact. The basic idea of this is that the songs of The Beatles, Queen, ABBA, Madonna, Michael Jackson…
Santiago Guillén. Sémiotique du mythe. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025. Le mythe peut être appréhendé comme notion et forme discursive en sciences du langage et en sémiotique. Des lectures critiques (1858-2025) de courants variés (pré-saussuriens, structuralistes, etc.) permettent de proposer des cadres théoriques et méthodologiques pour étudier les mythes contemporains.
KALELİOĞLU, M., AKATA, Z. H. (ed.) (2025), Semiotics: Istanbul with Signs from Work of Art to Life. İstanbul: İdeal Kültür Yayıncılık This study, Semiotics: İstanbul with Signs from Work of Art to Life, conducted under the leadership of the Turkish Semiotics Circle, aims to examine the city of İstanbul, an empire of signs, through various…
Pistol, Ramona Ileana. 2025. Novelty in Metaphors : A Semiotic Approach to the Creativity of Mind and Emotions. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. This book offers a groundbreaking semiotic exploration of metaphor as a fundamental cognitive process shaping how individuals experience and understand the world. Moving beyond traditional frameworks, it examines metaphor as a mode of…
Vuuren, Xany Jansen van. 2025. Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare : An Ecosemiotic Analysis of Interspecies Translation. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Animal welfare work is, arguably, the key locus of interspecific communication and offers a most valuable opportunity to understand what is involved in intersemiotic transmutations. As such, this book introduces the reader to an…
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of Punctum-International Journal of Semiotics, Volume 11, Issue 01 (2025), dedicated to Humor as Resemiotization. Guest-editors: Villy Tsakona (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens) and Jan Chovanec (Masaryk University). Available at: https://punctum.gr/
We are pleased to announce the publication of issue 266 of Semiotica. This issue brings together contributions by Hugo F. Alrøe, Ľudmila Lacková Bennett, Anežka Formánková, Arash Ghazvineh, Ariel Gómez Ponce, Kristína Harišová, Mengying Jiang, Zdeněk Joukl, Yunhee Lee, John S. Robertson, and Carlos A. Scolari. All articles are available in open access at the following…
Mahamadou Lamine Ouédraogo. Kémiotique: Prolégomènes à une sémiotique africaine. Ouagadougou: Les Éditions Mercury, 2025 La sémiotique kémite ou kémiotique traduit cet effort d’appropriation des théories sémiotiques par la modélisation. La nature de la réflexion sémiotique qui puise des ressources en philosophie, en anthropologie, en linguistique, en logique, etc. invite à considérer la quiddité de l’interprète…
