In the Dictionary, Greimas and Courtés spend a few words on resemantization, explaining it as a form of retrieval of “certain partial content units, having previously been lost” and the consequent rediscovery of “their initial semantic value”. If the Two Friends, they exemplify, are initially called “Monsieur” to indicate their “usual social status”, in the…

Edited by Anna Maria Lorusso (University of Bologna) and Franciscu Sedda (University of Cagliari) In 2022 – the centenary of the birth of Juri Lotman – we invite you to focus on the potentiality of his semiotic theory (including ideas of as personality, translation, creolization, autocommunication, self-description, semiosphere) to critique power structures and ideological processes in semiosic…

Carte Semiotiche è una rivista di semiotica e teoria dell’immagine a carattere internazionale e interdisciplinare, incentrata sulle immagini e i loro modi di produzione del senso. La rivista vuole essere un luogo di riflessione per accogliere e incoraggiare la pluralità di punti di vista sulla dimensione visiva e sensibile dei linguaggi e degli oggetti culturali….

Edited by Emanuela Piga Bruni (University Mercatorum, Rome), Ruggero Ragonese (University of Modena-Reggio Emilia), Marion Schmid (University of Edinburgh) “En effet, ‘reconnaître’ quelqu’un, et plus encore, après n’avoir pas pu le reconnaître, l’identifier, c’est penser sous une seule dénomination deux choses contradictoires, c’est admettre que ce qui était ici, l’être qu’on se rappelle n’est plus,…