NEWS & EVENTS

This section features announcements of forthcoming events and reports on past events of significance

REVIEWS IN PROGRESS

This rubric features book reviews in the process of being written as a way to prompt discussions not only from the author(s) of the books reviewed but also from anybody who feels that they can make significant contributions to the issues raised by the book or the review. Comments can be added in the appropriate section. This initiative is meant to favor constructive, scholarly dialogue. 



  • Can a metaphor solve an enigma?

    UPDATED NOVEMBER 3, 2022 Review of The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World, by Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater, Basic Books, 2022. By Paul Bouissac. Explaining the emergence and evolution of [...]

REVIEWS, REPORTS and INTERVIEWS

This sections features reviews of books and interviews that  make a contribution to semiotics. It also publishes reports on significant conferences. It will cover all relevant disciplines. Smart Semiotics endeavours to provide semioticians and others with this free resource that is essential for the robust development of research.

  • Modern Semiotics and the Reconstruction of Ancient Religions of Europe

    Review Modern Semiotics and the Reconstruction of Ancient Religions of Europe By Peter Jackson-Rova Link to the publisher’s web page (in German). https://www.winter-verlag.de/en/detail/978-3-8253-9618-3/Oettinger_Rova_Indogermanische_Religion/ What did people believe in ancient Europe in the millennia before the spread of Christianity? Just as many of the languages in [...]

  • Decoding the Pandemic, Five Years Later

    Decoding the Pandemic, Five Years Later Review of Sebastián Moreno Barreneche, The Semiotics of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics. London, New York, Dublin: Bloomsbury, 2024.  By Gary Genosko The metaphor of explaining the Covid-19 pandemic in a “nutshell,” the figure with which Moreno [...]

  • Announcing a reborn semiotic journal

    About the Journal Semiotic Review is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing original scholarship bearing upon symbolic behavior, meaning, and signification in all its forms. It is online and open-access. Current Issue Animation Editor: Paul Manning The animated drawing is the most direct manifestation of Animism. [...]
  • No Picture

    DECODING WAR

    Frank Jacob, editor, War and Semiotics: Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation,Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass Violence, Routledge Studies in ModernHistory, London and New York: Routledge, 2021. 324pp. By Gary Genosko The lives of signs during war, war semiotics, and the afterlives of signs [...]

  • Fiction and (Dis)belief: Representation in Symbolic Behaviour 

    Robert Yelle, author of The Semiotics of Religion: Signs of the Sacred in History (Bloomsbury, 2012) reviews Devotion and Artifice: Themes of Suspension in the History of Religions, by Peter Jackson Rova (De Gruyter, 2023). The Swedish historian of religions and Indo-Europeanist Peter Jackson Rova [...]

  • Semiotics in the First-Person #2 

    By Geoffrey Sykes. BA 10 Seat 44K. 6.10 A few minutes after takeoff a most dramatic thing happened to the aircraft. Let me explain. Seated, I realize that the main reason for arriving early at Sydney airport, that I could not book a window or [...]

  • Semiotics in the First-Person

    Semiotics is not merely a set of theories and methods whose aim is to explore and explain various meaning-making processes through detached analytical discourses. It is also a cognitive experience that affects our ways of perceiving and interpreting our surroundings and our social life. In [...]

  • Commentary on the Smart Semiotics Webinar Series 

    ‘Sensemaking across the human organism’ By Adolofo Garcia Michael Mair, 2022-2023 This commentary is on a seminar given by Adolfo Garcia in October 23rd 2022 for a ’ Smart Semiotics’ webinar series. Garcia addressed the rift between the two cultures of ‘personal’ understanding and ‘scientific’ [...]

  • THE MEANING OF OLFACTION

    Multisensorial  interferences in multimodal communication: the role of olfaction from seduction to aversion. (IPrA Brussels 2023) by  Paul Bouissac.  The research on multimodality bears almost exclusively on visual and acoustic modes    of communication. The phenomenology of perception has traditionally dismissed the sense of smell [...]

  • Exploring Semio-robotics

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  • Transformism. Can art transform us and inspire for change?

    “The spectator is the most important element in the art of the future.” Marcel Duchamp Imagine entering a museum and seeing an extraordinary work of art. It invites you to question reality and answer simple questions. It stays in your mind, and you come to [...]

  • Ai in Communication

    From the University of Torino, Daria Arkhipova  discusses her research on the role of AI on social media.

  • Before Sight

    Mini reviews by Paul Bouissac Re-published from SemiotiX 2012Before sight there was touch and smell, both in our evolutionary and developmental past. Scantattention has been paid, though, to tactile, gustatory, and olfactory information in the semioticliterature. By contrast, visual and acoustic communication has attracted much [...]

  • Neurosemiotics

    By Adolfo Martin Garcia Neurosemiotics is a pluralistic framework aimed to describe and explain semiosis as an emergent socio-biological phenomenon (García & Ibáñez, 2022a). It has been described as a subfield of biosemiotics that encompasses most work conducted within cognitive neuroscience (Bouissac, 1998). Yet, non-trivial [...]

  • Communicating danger. “Sebeok’s problem” and beyond

    Communicating danger: “Sebeok’s problem” and beyond Review of Marcel Danesi’s Warning Signs. The Semiotics of Danger, Bloomsbury Academic. London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney, 2022.  By Susan Petrilli  The book by Marcel Danesi, Warning Signs. The Semiotics of Danger (Bloomsbury, 2022) can be read at several levels, including as [...]

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