Fake News, Misinformation/Disinformation, Post-Truth (edited by Piero Polidoro) The latest issue of VERSUS (127, N. 2/2018) has been published. The thematic section of the issue is about “Fake-News, Misinformation/Disinformation, Post-Truth” and it has been edited by Piero Polidoro. Articles treat
To place animals within the realm of nature, means inserting them among the articulations of culture and the social. Semiotics has never avoided this chiasmus, choosing to deal from the outset with the problem of the languages of animals following
“The time is out of joint”. This famous line from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet helps to describe the impression of decentering, of deconstruction, which we currently live and experience. This phenomenon is caused by various factors and while it is happening
Il linguista Louis Hjelmslev è riconosciuto, insieme a Ferdinand de Saussure e Roman Jakobson, tra i padri nobili dello strutturalismo europeo. I suoi lavori sono rimasti a lungo una risorsa per gli studi storici delle scienze del linguaggio come per
The founder of both American pragmatism and semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) is widely regarded as an enormously important and pioneering theorist. In this book, scholars from around the world examine the nature and significance of Peirce’s work on perception,
The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis. It is proposed that mimicry has a double structure where sign relations in communication are in
Semiotics has been making progressively inroads into marketing research over the past thirty years. Despite the amply demonstrated conceptual appeal and empirical pertinence of semiotic perspectives in various marketing research streams, spanning consumer research, brand communications, branding and consumer cultural
Editor-in-Chief: Danesi, Marcel Semiotica. Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies / Revue de l’Association Internationale de Sémiotique Volume 2016, Issue 212 (Sep 2016) Special Issue: On edusemiotics, Guest Editors: Inna Semetsky, Andrew Stables and Sébastien Pesce De Gruyter 2016
This collection of papers crafted by young Tartu scholars is filled with a variety of semiotic topics, ranging from specific issues to broader theoretical problems. As a whole, it acknowledges current semiotic thinking as not only a maintenance of the
In its heyday in the 1960s, “structuralism” was one of the most influential movements in the human and social sciences. That influence, however, was always contentious and waned as soon as the early 1970s. Since then, structuralism has attracted rather