R. Di Leo, J. (29 Jan. 2026). A Dictionary of Philosophy by Charles S. Peirce. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. At the turn of the century, Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) shared his considerable experience as a writer of dictionary and cyclopedia entries with James Mark Baldwin, who was editing his landmark Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology…
We would like to draw your attention to the publication of this special issue of La Deleuziana, an international peer-reviewed journal, devoted to the dialogue between Deleuze and semiotics. The issue brings together contributions by semioticians from different schools, as well as philosophers and cultural theorists, who engage with a core set of concepts and problematics…
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/
