Korean Translation of Ju. Lotman’s “Kul’tura i vzryv (Culture and Explosion)” by professor Soo-Hwan Kim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…