Journal: Sign System Studies (44-1/2)

Sign Systems Studies 44(1-2), 2016

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We are happy to announce the publication of the new issue of Sign Systems Studies. This time, it is a special issue on environmental humanities titled “Framing nature and culture”, guest edited by Lauri Linask and Riin Magnus.

An international journal of semiotics and sign processes in culture and living nature, the journal Sign Systems Studies was established in 1964 by Juri Lotman (initially as Труды по знаковым системам – Σημειωτικη), and is thus the oldest international semiotic periodical. Originally (until 1992) a Russian-language series, it is now published in English, and has become a central institution in the semiotics of culture.

Starting from 1998, Sign Systems Studies is published as an international peer-reviewed journal on the semiotics of culture and nature. Issued regularly, one volume per year, it is indexed in major scientific databases. Since 2009, each volume includes four issues.

Vol 44, No 1/2 (2016): Special issue: Framing nature and culture

Guest editors: Lauri Linask, Riin Magnus

Lauri Linask, Riin Magnus. Introduction: Framing nature and culture

Ernest W. B. Hess-Lüttich. Urban discourse – city space, city language, city planning: Eco-semiotic approaches to the discourse analysis of urban renewal

Tiit Remm. Textualities of the city – from the legibility of urban space towards social and natural others in planning

Katarzyna Kaczmarczyk, Montana Salvoni. Hedge mazes and landscape gardens as cultural boundary objects

Matthew Clements. The circle and the maze: Two images of ecosemiotics

Yogi Hale Hendlin. Multiplicity and Welt

Rebecca C. Potter. The biosemiotics of Aldo Leopold

Wojciech Kalaga. Against the Frame

Pierre-Louis Patoine, Jonathan Hope. Literature as a defining trait of the human umwelt: From and beyond Heidegger

Ott Heinapuu. Agrarian rituals giving way to Romantic motifs: Sacred natural sites in Estonia

Hing Tsang. Documentary and ecosemiotics: Frames and faces in the work of Johan van der Keuken

Nelly Mäekivi, Timo Maran. Semiotic dimensions of human attitudes towards other animals: A case of zoological gardens

Ariel Gómez Ponce. Ecosemiotic aspects of zoomorphic metaphors: The human as a predator

Reviews and Notes

Ekaterina Velmezova. On semiotic (un)predictability: Tartu Summer School of Semiotics 2015

Remo Gramigna. Rethinking theoretical schools and circles in the 20th-century humanities

Kalevi Kull. Alexandr Levich (1945–2016) and the Tartu–Moscow Biosemiotic Nexus

Myrdene Anderson. My half-century saturated in semiotics: A spiralling confessional

SIGN SYSTEMS STUDIES. ISSN 1406-4243 (print), 1736-7409 (online). E-mail: sss@ut.ee. Postal address: Sign Systems Studies, Dept. of Semiotics, University of Tartu, Jakobi St. 2, 51014 Tartu, Estonia