October, 2022 - Smart Semiotics

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 […]

Before Sight

Mini reviews by Paul Bouissac Re-published from SemiotiX 2012 Before 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 […]

Smart Semiotics Webinar Series. Sensemaking across the human organism – October 23, 2022.

By Adolfo M. García Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Universidad de San Andrés, ArgentinaNational Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), ArgentinaGlobal Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco, USADepartamento de Lingüística y Literatura, Facultad de Humanidades, […]

Featured

Semiotics of the Dragon and Other Celestial Signs: a webinar by Professor Marcel Danesi.

Semiotics of the Dragon and Other Celestial Signs: In European cultural traditions, the dragon is envisioned as a fire-breathing mythical monster resembling a giant reptile with wings, symbolizing chaos, whereas in East Asia it is […]

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Writing on the Walls: a webinar on the semiotics of graffiti, street art, and vandalism.

Writing on the Walls: a webinar on the semiotics of graffiti, street art, and vandalism by Carolina Cambre, Rhett Cano-Jacome, and Chris Martin. Photo credit Stephen Harold Riggins Graffiti By Chris William Martin The purpose, […]

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Smart Semiotics WEBINAR by Ihor Biloushchenko on Art Forum #1

Summary: While the definition of art remains a subject of debate, we can agree that it serves as a unique way to express some ideas and feelings. In this webinar I focus how art deals […]

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A Smart Semiotics WEBINAR by BRUNO MESZ on CROSS-MODALITY

A Smart Semiotics WEBINAR by BRUNO MESZ on CROSS-MODALITY January 14, 2024 Bruno MeszInstituto de Investigación en Arte y Cultura, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero(Argentina) Crossmodal correspondences (CC) have been defined as “the surprising connections thatthe […]

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“Systemic Semiotics” – webinar by Professor Piotr Sadowski (Dublin)

Abstract Systemic semiotics applies the theory of autonomous systems to the study of communication and meaning. Autonomous systems, such as living organisms, have the capacity to maintain homeostasis—a state of internal functional equilibrium in respect […]