272014Feb
In Journal, Semiotic Publications

Journal: Signs and Society – Representing Transcendence: The Semiosis of Real Presence

Signs and Society Vol. 2, No. S1 (Supplement 2014) Representing Transcendence: The Semiosis of Real Presence Massimo Leone (Università di Torino) and Richard J. Parmentier (Brandeis University) TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles Representing Transcendence: The Semiosis of Real Presence (pp. S1-S22) Massimo Leone and Richard J. Parmentier DOI: 10.1086/674529 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674529 Cherubim: (Re)presenting Transcendence (pp. S23-S48) Ugo…

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212014Feb
In Congress & Call for Papers, Journal, Semiotic Publications

CFP: Analitica / Online Journal of Music Studies

“Sound contacts” – Call for papers 2014 (Papers section) Music can be seen as a relational force binding musicians, listeners, instruments and sounds. Its functions are deeply embedded in the network of agents involved in its production, fruition and definition processes. Despite the rhetoric of music as the art of sentiment, spiritual force or universal…

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22014Jan
In Journal, Semiotic Publications

Journal: Sign System Studies vol. 41/4

Sign Systems Studies 41(4) The fourth issue of 2013 of the journal Sign Systems Studies — vol. 41(4) — publishes a series of papers on the traditions in semiotics, focusing on Lotman, Deely, Peirce, Sarailiev, and Augustine. It also publishes two articles on biosemiotics (on the perception of environment, and the concept of exaptation), and a review of Lotman-conference…

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262013Dec
In Congress & Call for Papers, Journal

CFP: Southern Journal of Semiotics

Southern Journal of Semiotics – Special issue: “Memory as a Representational Phenomenon ” The editors announce a Call for Papers for a special issue on memory as a representational phenomenon, broadly defined. Papers should address any aspect of memory as a semiotic system.  Topics of particular interest include: development and use of working memory, retrieval…

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242013Dec
In Congress & Call for Papers, Journal

CFP: Chinese Semiotic Studies

Chinese Semiotic Studies Call for Papers Number of issues: 4 issues (March issue, June issue, September issue and December issue) per year starting from 2014 Publisher: De Gruyter Website: http://css.njnu.edu.cn/ Email for submission: cssnnu@163.com President of Editorial Board: Jie Zhang Vice Presidents of Editorial Board: Bin Xin, Jiazu Gu, and Yongxiang Wang Editor-in-Chief: Yongxiang Wang Associate Editor: Linda L. Thornburg Assistant Editor: Hongbing Yu…

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202013Dec
In Journal

Journal: Sign System Studies vol. 41

Sign Systems Studies 41(2/3) The new issue of the journal Sign Systems Studies — vol. 41(2/3) — includes a large special section on semiotics of montage as guest-edited by Tomi Huttunen. It also publishes two articles by Juri Lotman (which appear for the first time in English), and a review of the 8th Tartu Semiotics…

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182013Nov
In Books, Semiotic Publications

New book – Beginnings of the semiotics of culture. Edited by Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop, Kalevi Kull

New book from the Tartu Semiotics Library series: Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop, Kalevi Kull (eds.) 2013. Beginnings of the semiotics of culture. (Tartu Semiotics Library vol. 13.) Tartu: University of Tartu Press. 133 p. (Pb) A landmark of Tartu semiotics for nearly half of a century now is the semiotics of culture. The semiotic study…

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82013Nov
In Books, Semiotic Publications

New book – Meaning Making: It’s what we do; it’s who we are by Floyd Merrell

New book by Floyd Merrell (from the University of Tartu Press): merrell, floyd 2013. Meaning Making: It’s what we do; it’s who we are (A transdisciplinary approach). (Tartu Semiotics Library vol. 12.) Tartu: University of Tartu Press. 321 p. (Pb) Meaning Making: It’s what we do; it’s who we are (A transdisciplinary approach) is a…

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252013Sep
In Books, Semiotic Publications

New Book: Semiotics of Subjectivities [in English and Italian]

New Book: Leone, Massimo and Pezzini, Isabella, eds. 2013. Semiotics of Subjectivities [in English and Italian]; contributions by Umberto Eco, Victor Stoichita, Massimo Leone, Eero Tarasti, etc. Rome: Aracne. ISNN: 9788854863293. Publisher’s address: http://www.aracneeditrice.it/aracneweb/index.php/catalogo/area/scienze-storiche-filosofiche-pedagogiche-e-psicologiche/9788854863293-detail.html Price: 30,00 Euros Short description: essays on the semiotics of subjectivity, with specific attention to its visual representations. A PDF of presentation: Leone &…

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