New book: The Semiotics of Animal Representations – Edited by Kadri Tüür and Morten Tønnessen

The Semiotics of Animal Representations Edited by Kadri Tüür and Morten Tønnessen Amsterdam/New York, NY 2014. 376 pp. (Nature, Culture and Literature 10) ISBN: 978-90-420-3827-1                     Paper €80,-/US$112,- ISBN: 978-94-012-1072-0                     E-Book €72,-/US$101,- Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=NCL+10 The ways in which we represent animals say much about who we are, who we strive to be, and our often…

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New book: Lectures on the Epistemology of Semiotics, Zdzisław Wąsik

The book has been published in print and there is a pdf version available here. Zdzisław Wąsik. 2014. Lectures on the Epistemology of Semiotics. Wrocław: Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław Publishing / Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Filologicznej we Wrocławiu (Philologica Wratislaviensia: Series Didactica. Vol. 1. Edited by Zdzisław Wąsik). 236 pp. ISBN 978-83-60097-24-3 https://wsf.academia.edu/ZdzislawWasik

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CFP: Cygne noir – revue d’exploration sémiotique

CYGNE NOIR revue d’exploration sémiotique  http://revuecygnenoir.org/contenu/appel-a-contribution Appel à contribution Sémiotique des mystères Le samedi 8 mars 2014, un avion de ligne de la Malaysia Airlines disparaît en plein vol, et ses 239 passagers enregistrés avec lui. Qu’est-il advenu du vol MH370? En l’absence de réponse, rapidement, les médias proposent des pistes. Le 14 mars, Le…

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New Book: Viator in Tabula – Sémiotique de l’interculturel culinaire dans le récit de voyage

Preface The project of this book goes back to approximately 10 years. I came then to collaborate with Beatrice Fink to a special issue of Eighteenth Century Life on the food topography. I proposed then a study that figures in the present volume under a more developed form, on the reactions of an English physician…

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New Book: Semiotics and Visual Communication

Semiotics and Visual Communication – Concepts and Practices  This book is the result of selective research papers that were presented at the First International Conference on Semiotics and Visual Communication at the Cyprus University of Technology in November 2011 . The conference was structured around the theme from theory to practice, and brought together researchers and practitioners…

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Southern Semiotic Review Issue 3 and Call for Papers

SOUTHERN SEMIOTIC REVIEW – Issue 3 (2014) now available at www.southernsemioticreview.net This  journal welcomes papers with general semiotic methodology and subject matter, as well as ones with special themes. Current themes include media and video, religion, memory and performance and visual arts.  As well as peer-reviewed papers, less formal reviews, commentaries and work in progress are…

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New book: Brand Equity Planning with Structuralist Rhetorical Semiotics, George Rossolatos

Brand Equity Planning with Structuralist Rhetorical Semiotics ISBN: 978-3-86219-706-4 (print) 978-3-86219-707-1 (e-book) Author: George Rossolatos Release date: February 2014 Pages: 895 Publisher: Kassel University Press Available for preview and purchase @ http://www.uni-kassel.de/hrz/db4/extern/dbupress/publik/abstract.php?978-3-86219-706-4 Publication objectives Brand Equity Planning with Structuralist Rhetorical Semiotics furnishes an innovative conceptual model and methodology for brand equity planning, with view to…

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