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: 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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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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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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