Levy, Lior ; Leone, Massimo (2026). Masks and Faces: Critical Perspectives Across Disciplines. London and New York: Routledge. Focusing on masks and faces as figures and objects that carry ethical and political meanings, this volume examines the scientific, cultural, visual, and philosophical histories and traditions in which they are imbricated and which allow them to…
Montero, Humberto (2025). Yuma Tratado de semiótica precolombina. Quito: Casa de las Culturas Ecuatoriana Benjamín Carrión. Yuma establece un marco semiótico integral para el estudio del pensamiento simbólico precolombino —de raíz andino-equinoccial— mediante un sistema analítico que replantea las categorías de la semiosis a partir de la cosmovisión andina, con el ñawparuna (el humano ancestral)…
Segni del tempo: il volto anziano nell’era digitale (Rome: Aracne, 2026) OPEN ACCESS https://www.aracneeditrice.eu/pubblicazioni/segni-del-tempo-federico-bellentani-massimo-leone-9791221821963.html Edited by Federico BELLENTANI and Massimo LEONE, this Italian-language volume (“I Saggi di Lexia” series, n. 64) explores the intersection between population aging and digital transformation through a semiotic perspective. The contributions examine the elderly face as a key interface between identity,…
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…
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…
