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Meet Your Publisher: Gurdeep Mattu, Bloomsbury Academic

I have always been interested in semiotics, if we are to take ‘an interest in semiotics’ to mean an ‘interest in how things mean’.  That’s perhaps a difficult and rather tortuous phrase to begin with, but sentences like that have always interested me, and those books that refuse easy definition, but hint at great things [...]

Meet Your Publisher: Gurdeep Mattu, Bloomsbury Academic

I have always been interested in semiotics, if we are to take ‘an interest in semiotics’ to mean an ‘interest in how things mean’. That’s perhaps a difficult and rather tortuous phrase to begin with, but sentences like that have always interested me, and those books that refuse easy definition, but hint at great things [...]

Notices

Call for Papers: The International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) announces the Fifth Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies: The communicative body in development, to take place in Lund, Sweden, July 24–27, 2012. Please visit the conference website.

We invite abstracts of unpublished work for individual papers, posters, and thematic panels.Each author may submit no more than three abstracts: one as main author and two as co-author).

Important dates

•February 13, 2012: deadline for all submissions
•April 13, 2012: notification of acceptance
•July 24-27, 2012: conference, starting in the morning
•July 24, closing in the afternoon on July 27.

Local committee

•Marianne Gullberg, Lund University
•Mats Andrén, Lund University
•Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen
•Maria Graziano, Lund University
•Agneta Gulz, Lund University
•Elaine Madsen, Lund University
•Sandra Debreslioska, MA, Lund University
•Maja Petersson, Lund University