Published new issue 13-14 of Lexia Journal of Semiotics

Download presentation-PDF: Massimo Leone 2013 – Lexia 13-14 Protesta Protest a cura di Massimo Leone Un vento di protesta sta scuotendo il mondo intero. È un vento che soffia da lontano, ma in questi ultimi tempi si è fatto impetuoso. Le elezioni presidenziali in Iran nel 2009, i moti di rivolta in Tunisia, Egitto, Siria, per tutto il…

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Book: Brand equity planning with structuralist rhetorical semiotics Vol.I

Press release Brand equity planning with structuralist rhetorical semiotics Vol.I  Title: Brand equity planning with structuralist rhetorical semiotics Vol.I ISBN: 978-1481843157 Author: George Rossolatos Release date: 2012 Pages: 260 Available at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/148184315X   Publication objectives: This book seeks to outline a structuralist rhetorical semiotic approach to brand equity planning, with view to addressing how…

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Signs and Society – vol.1, n.1

 The first issue of Signs and Society, the new journal of semiotics of the University of Chicago Press has been published. Free access to the issue is available at this link: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/670125 Related posts: http://iassais.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/cfp-signs-and-societ/

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Special Issue: The Authoriality of Religious Law

A partir de este link se puede bajar un PDF de presentación del último número de la _Revista Internacional de Semiótica Jurídica_, un numero especial sobre la “Authoriality of Religious Law”: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4hyrl1oa6j943w3/Massimo%20Leone%202013%20-%20The%20Authoriality%20of%20Religious%20Law%20-%20Presentation%2002.pdf

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Southern Semiotic Review – new journal initiative

Southern Semiotic Review – new journal initiative It is pleasing to announce that planning for a new journal has progressed, and contributions are invited.  To be titled “Southern Semiotic Review”, the journal will have online and print versions. The initial online version will offer a progressive and dynamic approach to publication. As well as peer-reviewed…

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New Book: Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics – Tony Jappy

Description: Contemporary culture is as much visual as literary. This book explores an approach to the communicative power of the pictorial and multimodal documents that make up this visual culture, using Peircean semiotics. It develops the enormous theoretical potential of Peirce’s theory of signs of signs (semiotics) and the persuasive strategies in which they are…

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CFP: Signs and Society, a new journal of semiotics published by the University of Chicago Press

Call for Papers The journal is now accepting submissions for a supplementary issue, “Representing Transcendence” (Winter 2014)Students of semiosis have long realized that signs and symbols, in their “standing for” function, are normally more “evident” (perceptible, experiential) than what they represent (or re-present). In fact, one of the classic definitions of the sign stresses that they need to “reveal”…

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“Representing Transcendence” Call for Papers for Supplementary Issue (Winter 2014)

   Signs and Society The University of Chicago Press “Representing Transcendence” Call for Papers for Supplementary Issue (Winter 2014). Students of semiosis have long realized that signs and symbols, in their “standing for” function, are normally more “evident” (perceptible, experiential) than what they represent (or re-present). In fact, one of the classic definitions of the…

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CFP: Lexia n.17

CALL FOR PAPERS (download PDF: Call for papers _Lexia_ 17) Lexia n. 17: How to do Things with Images Lexia n. 17: Come fare cose con le immagini Lexia n. 17: Comment faire des choses avec des images Lexia n. 17: Cómo hacer cosas con imágenes Lexia, the international, peer-reviewed journal of CIRCE, the Center for…

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