25? There are different ways of calculating a person´s age: from birth, or from the moment of conception. The same goes for institutions, organizations, associations, though for the latter ‘conception’ is harder to pin down, as it takes place in the more abstract world of ideas. A very brief history The International Pragmatics Association (http://ipra.ua.ac.be), [...]
25? There are different ways of calculating a person’s age: from birth, or from the moment of conception. The same goes for institutions, organizations, associations, though for the latter ‘conception’ is harder to pin down, as it takes place in the more abstract world of ideas. A very brief history The International Pragmatics Association (http://ipra.ua.ac.be), [...]
In 2008 Polskie Towarzystwo Semiotyczne [Polish Semiotic Society (PSS)] begun its fifth decade of existence. Since the very beginning (1968), PSS has been acting on many areas of theoretical and applied semiotics including linguistics, logic, methodology, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, sociolinguistics, general theory of argumentation, cultural studies, computer science etc. Among members of [...]
The International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems (IJSSS) was founded in early 2011. The journal offers a space of intense collaboration from empirical studies and theoretical frameworks toward a deeper understanding of semiotic process and an integrated vision of its synthesis in artificial systems. In establishing this journal, we encourage collaborative approaches regarding semiotic [...]
Foreword: Visiting the Peirce Edition Project Looking backward, any scholar can probably identify the precise moment in which her researches took a sudden and decisive turn, thus shaping the rest of her academic life. This shift may be prompted by different reasons, such as the reading of an inspiring book or the talk of [...]
Its publication started in September, 2009, Chinese Semiotic Studies (CSS) is an official academic journal sponsored by International Semiotic Research Institute of Nanjing Normal University and Chinese Semiotic Research Center of Chinese Association of Linguistic Semiotics, and published by Nanjing Normal University Press, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P. R. China. With two issues published each year, regularly [...]
Qualitative research is the rigorous attempt to produce findings or results by describing, explaining and/or interpreting qualitative patterns in terms of words, matrices, pictures, sounds, or other forms of representation; making qualitative research well-suited for discovery-oriented studies focusing on learning perspectives of others and for studying phenomena in naturalistic settings. The Qualitative Report (ISSN 1052-0147) [...]
The International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication (IAISLC) was founded in 1998. The IAISLC Executive Committee currently comprises: Stephen J. Cowley (University of Hertfordshire, University of KwaZulu), Daniel R. Davis (University of Michigan), Harjeet S. Gill (Patiala University), Roy Harris (University of Oxford), Jesper Hermann (University of Copenhagen), Christopher Hutton (University [...]
“Cool Japan” is a phrase coined after “Cool Britania,” which once functioned as a trademark celebrating the popularity of British pop culture in 1990s, and was rather indiscriminately used as a sign to reinforce self-confidence of the nation. Japan Cool has a lot in common with Cool Britania in this sense, and basically seems to [...]
From 4 to 12 September 2010 the Southeast European Center for Semiotic Studies of the New Bulgarian University, in cooperation with CIRCE, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Communication of the University of Torino, organized the 16th edition of the European Early-Fall School in Semiotics, under the title “Imagining and Understanding”. The New Bulgarian University [...]