New book: “Advances in Brand Semiotics & Discourse Analysis”, edited by George Rossolatos (Vernon Press, 2023)

This volume addresses some of the most important conceptual, methodological, and empirical challenges and opportunities with which the sister disciplines of semiotics and discourse analysis are mutually confronted in the context of considering new avenues of cross-disciplinary application to distinctive branding research streams. In continuation of the collective volume ‘Handbook of Brand Semiotics’ (Kassel University…

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Submission of 15th World Congress papers

Dear colleagues, We inform you that the submission of Congress papers for inclusion in the e- Proceedings has started on December 1, 2022, and last till May 31, 2023. The submission will be made through the Congress website(https://www.semioticsworld.com/news). In preparing their papers for submission authors need to follow the guidelines set out in the Stylesheet…

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Special offer – Bloomsbury Semiotics Volumes 1-4 (General Editor: Jamin Pelkey)

Dear colleagues, Please see below a special offer on the 4 volumes of Bloomsbury Semiotics, edited by the IASS’s very own Jamin Pelkey and featuring contributions by other IASS members. Bloomsbury are offering 20% off the volumes for all our members. Best, Paul Bloomsbury Semiotics Volumes 1-4 General Editor: Jamin Pelkey Bloomsbury Semiotics offers a state-of-the-art…

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Republication: “Sémiotique de la photographie” (en Open Access), de Pierluigi Basso Fossali et Maria Giulia Dondero

Cher.e.s collègues, J’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la republication en version numérique et en open access, aux Presses universitaires de Limoges (PULIM), de l’ouvrage de Pierluigi Basso et Maria Giulia Dondero Sémiotique de la photographie, initialement paru en version papier en 2011 en hors sériede la revue Visible. L’ouvrage est disponible à l’adresse :…

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Call for papers: Special issue of Punctum 9:1 (2023) “The Meaning of Collections between Media and Practices” (Guest editors: Gabriele Marino and Bruno Surace)

In 2009, in an essay that was to become famous, Umberto Eco associated the list with a kind of dizzying, vertigo-like semiotic mode of accumulation and categorization. The list, the catalog, the register, the inventory, are indeed quasi-synonyms, all united by their belonging to a specific semantic area: they refer to a set of things,…

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