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Semiotic Profile

Semiotic Profile: Judith Lynne Hanna

Visual and kinesthetic stimuli led Dr. Judith Lynne Hanna (Columbia University, PhD 1976) to begin an almost five decade interdisciplinary study on the semiotics of nonverbal communication.  At social dances in Los Angeles, she noticed that African university students had a distinctive “aura” as they danced, an energy that was different from their American classmates [...]

Semiotic Profile: Judith Lynne Hanna

Visual and kinesthetic stimuli led Dr. Judith Lynne Hanna (Columbia University, PhD 1976) to begin an almost five decade interdisciplinary study on the semiotics of nonverbal communication.  At social dances in Los Angeles, she noticed that African university students had a distinctive “aura” as they danced, an energy that was different from their American classmates [...]

Semiotic Profile: Roy Harris

Roy Harris (born 1931) is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics in the University of Oxford and the founder of a distinct approach to language and communication termed ‘integrational linguistics’ or ‘integrationism’. Prior to taking up the Chair in General Linguistics, Harris was Professor of Romance Languages in Oxford. His inaugural lecture for the Chair in [...]

Semiotic profile: Andre Helbo

The writings of many semiologists are often dogmatically linked to the particular schools of thought to which they relate. By contrast, Andre Helbo has demonstrated in his publications a remarkable open-mindedness, a kind of fluidity of approaches which has steered his works away from any intellectual orthodoxy. In his view, semiology is defined more by [...]

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We invite abstracts of unpublished work for individual papers, posters, and thematic panels.Each author may submit no more than three abstracts: one as main author and two as co-author).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