Lexia, the international, peer-reviewed, SCOPUS-indexed journal of CIRCE, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Communication of the University of Turin, Italy, invites contributions to be published in issue n. 21. The topic of the forthcoming issue is “Censorship”. Expected publication schedule of the volume: June 15, 2015: deadline for contributions July 15, 2015: deadline for referees September…
Sign Systems Studies 42(2/3) Sign Systems Studies has been selected for inclusion in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index as well as Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, beginning with volume 41, issue 1, 2013. CONTENTS ARTICLES * Kristian Tylén, Luis Emilio Bruni: Sign evolution on multiple time scales. Introductory comments * Winfried Nöth: The growth of…
We are pleased to announce the publication of the Ocula special issue “Commemorating Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914): interpretive semiotics and mass media”. It includes contributions by: María de los Angeles Montes, Giorgio Borrelli, Geane Carvalho Alzamora, Valerio De Michele, Emanuele Fadda, Giacomo Festi, Jean Fisette, Carlos González Pérez, Tony Jappy, Toni Marino, Giampaolo Proni, Renira…
The second novel by Eero Tarasti has appeared in Italian, entitled L’eredita di Villa Nevski. Translated from the Finnish by Vesa Matteo Piludu, edited by Paolo Rosato, 466 p. Casa Editrice Rocco Carabba, Lanciano.
Download presentation-PDF: Lexia 17-18 Presentation materials Immagini efficaci Efficacious images “Viviamo nella società delle immagini” è ormai una frase senza senso. Se tutto è immagine, come distinguere tra visione e visione, a ognuna attribuendo una certa fattura, significazione, presa sul reale? Da tempo la semiotica si è data il compito di capire la sintassi delle immagini, il modo in…
Les médias parlent tout le temps de « fondamentalisme religieux » comme d’un élément essentiel de la scène sociale, culturelle, politique, et même militaire contemporaine. Mais qu’est-ce que c’est, au juste, le fondamentalisme religieux ? Comment peut-on distinguer un message fondamentaliste ? D’où dérive-t-elle la force communicative par laquelle ce type de discours s’est répandu de façon globale, surtout à travers…
“Serendipity, inference, and abduction present opportunities for solutions to the puzzles appealing to humans, mathematicians included. When successful, these intuitive semiosic leaps find pattern, even when the pattern may not be explained beyond the frame of the puzzle. In foregrounding abduction, Danesi and Bockarova refresh ancient queries about any distinctions between discovery and invention. The…
www.ijmarketingsemiotics.com http://ijmarketingsemiotics.com/journal-contents-2/ PRESS RELEASE: LAUNCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARKETING SEMIOTICS (IJMS) VOL.II We are pleased to announce the launch of the second issue of the International Journal of Marketing Semiotics. Almost three years have elapsed since the official release of the International Journal of Marketing Semiotics. During this period we have witnessed an…
New book from Laura Gherlone, Dopo la semiosfera. (Con saggi inediti di Jurij M. Lotman) [After the Semiosphere. (With Unpublished Essays By Yu. M. Lotman)], Mimesis Publishing.
New book from Massimo Leone: Spiritualità digitale: il senso religioso nell’era della smaterializzazione [“Digital Spirituality: the religious sense in the age of dematerialization”].
