Obituario Rosa María Ravera (1932-2021)

Expresamos a la Asociación Argentina de Semiótica, a la Federación Latinoamericana de Semiótica, a la International Association for Semiotics Studies- Association Internationale de Sémiotique, a la Federación Latinoamericana de Estética y a la Asociación Argentina de Estética Un Profundo Pesar por el Sensible Fallecimiento de la Dra. Rosa María Ravera, alguien necesario ya no estará…

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OBITUARY. Rosa María Ravera (1932-2021)

It is with great sadness and regret that we have all received – especially the Argentine, Latin American and international semiotic community – the news of the death of Rosa María Ravera.This universal rosarina, a woman of unmistakable joy, always smiling and generous, extraordinarily loyal to her friends and to her convictions, left a deep…

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Hongwei Jia, talented Chinese semiotician and translator, passes away at 44.

By Hongbing Yu Dr. Hongwei Jia, a linguist-turned Chinese semiotician and translator, died on May 24 in Harbin, China. He was 44 and lived in Beijing. The cause of his passing was complications from severe pneumonia due to overfatigue, according to his brother Hongtao Jia. At his death, Dr. Jia was Associate Professor of Linguistics…

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Jorge Lozano. In memoriam

Le 22 mars 2021 est mort, victime du Covid 19, le sémiologue Jorge Lozano. Professeur de théorie de l’information à l’université Complutense de Madrid. Jorge a été une figure fondamentale et un pionnier de la sémiotique en Espagne. Jorge Lozano est né à La Palma, une des Iles Canaries, en 1951. Après avoir fait des…

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Jorge Lozano Hernández (1951 – 2021)

Profesor, semiólogo, director del Grupo de Estudios de Semiótica de la Cultura, catedrático de Teoría de la Información en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ex director de la Academia de Roma, secretario de redacción de la Revista de Occidente, gran maestro y amigo. Fue uno de los miembros fundadores de la revista deSignis, alguien que…

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Oscar Traversa (1940-2020)

Tuvo una buena vida. Lo creemos. Oscar reafirmó sus elecciones, sus acciones atendiendo siempre a sus proyectos y a los de los otros. Antes del comienzo del último congreso mundial de semiótica en Buenos Aires -2019-, recordaba los inicios de la asociación (grupo, agrupamiento…) en 1970 mientras trabajaba entusiasta en la organización del encuentro. Hasta…

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Paolo Fabbri (17 April 1939 – 2 June 2020)

Paolo Fabbri was very much a man of the word: in every sense of the term. He studied languages, speeches, images, media, and with them everything that human societies use to communicate and to give meaning to the world, to themselves and to others: gestures, clothes, tattoos, clothes, food, buildings, entire cities. So, he was…

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Roland Posner (1942-2020)

Roland Posner, President of the IASS from 1994 to 2004, died on 26 May 2020. Born on 30 June 1942, Posner studied philosophy, comparative literature, linguistics and communication theory at the universities of Bonn, Munich and Berlin. In 1972 he graduated summa cum laude in the subjects of General Linguistics, German language and Philosophy at the…

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Adrián Gimate-Welsh (1943-2019)

The International Association for Semiotic Studies – IASS / AIS announces with sadness that Mexican researcher and semiotician Dr. Adrián Sergio Gimate-Welsh Hernández, from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, has recently passed away. La International Association for Semiotic Studies – IASS / AIS lamenta el fallecimiento del investigador y semiólogo mexicano Dr. Adrián Sergio Gimate-Welsh Hernández, miembro…

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