Acim, Rachid. Style, Meaning and Pedagogy. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Art and Science Inc. 2025. A practical handbook for Stylistics classrooms. Through lucid explanations and illustrative examples, it demystifies the process of stylistic analysis, empowering students to navigate the complex landscape of English style, and explore the myriad ways in which language can be shaped and…

Roberto FLORES (Cord.). Ocho ensayos para una arqueosemiótica. Ciudad de México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2025 La arqueosemiotica, disciplina novedosa, propone instrumentos tanto conceptuales como metodologicos, ofrece metodos de ordenamiento y lectura que favorecen la interpretacion materiales para el analisis significativo del pasado.

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the book presentation of Sphere of Understanding: Tartu Dialogues with Semioticians, published by De Gruyter in the “Semiotics, Communication and Cognition” series. The event will take place online on  12 May 2025, from 6PM to 5PM (Paris time)/ 7PM to 8PM (Tartu time)/ 5PM to 6PM (London time)/ 12PM…

Mohamed BERNOUSSI. Le chercheur modèle. Cinq étapes clefs de la carrière d’Umberto Eco. Éditions Capital, 2025. Réunir dans un ouvrage pratique et détaillé les conseils et les règles suivis par Umberto Eco pour réussir un travail de recherche, mais surtout donner des exemples d’illustration à travers les propres recherches menées par Umberto Eco depuis son…

Massimo Leone (a cura di). Il volto infinito. Torino: FACETS Digital Press, 2025. (Open Access – https://iris.unito.it/retrieve/3c4b41cb-45a7-4372-a049-cfde600429c1/Massimo%20LEONE%202025%20-%20Il%20volto%20infinito%20-%20PDF%20editoriale_compressed.pdf). Il volto infinito offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the face in contemporary digital societies, combining perspectives from semiotics, philosophy, aesthetics, and media studies. Emerging from the ERC-funded FACETS project, this volume analyzes the transformations of the face in…

Francesco PILUSO, Karina ABDALA, Massimo LEONE. Semiotica Dei Filtri. I Saggi Di Lexia. Roma: Aracne, 2025. https://www.aracneeditrice.eu/it/pubblicazioni/semiotica-dei-filtri-francesco-piluso-massimo-leone-9791221818055.html. I saggi raccolti in Semiotica dei filtri cercano di indagare la pluralità di significati culturali, le molteplici configurazioni narrative e le evoluzioni tecno-estetiche del filtro, a partire dall’ambivalenza linguistica di questo oggetto, resa in inglese dalla dialettica tra…

Kull, Kalevi and Velmezova, Ekaterina. Sphere of Understanding: Tartu Dialogues with Semioticians. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111435985 The book presents dialogues with fourteen highly influential semioticians: Juri Lotman, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Boris Uspenskij, Umberto Eco, Paolo Fabbri, Myrdene Anderson, Winfried Nöth, Gunther Kress, Roland Posner, Stuart Kauffman, Jesper Hoffmeyer, Terrence Deacon, Paul Cobley, and Jaan…

Emmeche, Claus. Semiotics of Friendship: An Encyclopedic Approach. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111423098 A friend should be able to be an attentive listener, which made semiotician Roland Barthes wonder in his intriguing dictionary of love, “cannot friendship be defined as a space with total sonority?”. This volume takes on the encyclopedic task – in…

Cattacin, Sandro ; Gamba, Fiorenza ; Waeber, Olivier (dir.). Penser et Planifier La Ville Des Différences. Zurich: Seismo. 2024. Dédié à la mémoire du grand architecte Franco Zagari, cet ouvrage contient aussi le dernier article qu’il a rédigé. Les villes se caractérisent par leur pluralisme. Ce fait devient pertinent dans la pratique de la gouvernance…