Semiotica is the official journal of the IASS-AIS. It was edited by Thomas A. Sebeok from its foundation until he passed away on December 21, 2001, when he was followed by Jean Umiker-Seeok. The new Editor-in-Chief is Marcel Danesi (E-mail: marcel.danesi@utoronto.ca ). Semiotica is published by Mouton (which was at first an independent Dutch publisher, and today is a division of Walter de Gruyter, Berlin). The very first issue appeared in 1969. The cover of the Volume 1 issues described the editorial line:
“SEMIOTICA, with a strictly scientific orientation, plans to publish studies in all field in which the notion of signs is or can be recognized and discussed, such as logic, linguistics, information theory, analysis of social relationships, types of discourse (in epistemology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, etc.), poetics, esthetics in the arts. We invite contributions from all who are interested in developing semiotic concepts within the lines of the scientific approach we wish to encourage.”
Starting with a quarterly, the journal is now published in five volumes of two double issues each with almost 2,000 pp. per year.
In the list of members of the first editorial committee we find names like Roland Barthes, Umberto Eco, Juri M. Lotman, Nicolas Ruwet, Meyer Shapiro, and Hansjakob Seiler.
Apart from articles, Semiotica also publishes “Review Articles”, which not merely review books, but thoroughly explore a special topic of the publication. Thus far, Semiotica has been indexed four times, the last one is the “Index to Semiotica Vols. 1-100 (1969-1994)” (on 795pp. all articles of 25 years of Semiotica can be looked up by the author, the title, the reviewed books; in addition, there is a subject index in three parts: persons, geographic names and scientific fields).
Although authors sometimes have to wait rather long for their articles to appear, they are awarded not only with a first rate publication, but can be — literally — awarded; in 1981, the Mouton d’Or prize was created for the year’s best article. For a list of Award Winners go to the Mouton de Gruyter website.
Interim Editor-in-Chief
Stéphanie Walsh Matthews
Ryerson University,
Toronto,
Canada
e-mail: swalsh@arts.ryerson.ca
Editor for French
Stéphanie Walsh Matthews
e-mail: swalsh@arts.ryerson.ca
Associate Editors
Andrea Rocci
e-mail: andrea.rocci@usi.ch
Hongbing Yu
e-mail: njnubrandon@126.com
Managing Editor
Ali Aird
E-mail: aaird@ryerson.ca
Book Review Editors
Mariana Bockarova (Coordinator)
e-mail: bockarov@post.harvard.edu
Claudio Guerri
Frederik Stjernfelt
Kim Sung-do
Coordinators
Caterina Clivio,Vanessa Compagnone, Stacy Costa, Nakia Lee-Foon
Editorial Committee
Myrdene Anderson
Prisca Augustyn
Paolo Balboni
Marcello Barbieri
Arthur Asa Berger
Mohamed Bernoussi
Per Aage Brandt
Thomas Broden
Patrizia Calefato
Le Cheng
Paul Cobley
Robbie B. H. Goh
Louis Hébert
André Helbo
Kalevi Kull
Dragana Martinovic
Frank Nuessel
Jamin Pelkey
Susan Petrilli
Roland Posner
Eddo Rigotti
Shi-xu
Eero Tarasti
Bill Thompson
Didier Tsala Effa
Massimo Vedovelli
Giovanna Zaganelli
Yiheng Zhao
The guideline for authors can be downloaded in English and in French here.
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