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The Semiotics of Pronouns: structure and dynamics of pronominal systems

By Paul Bouissac A linguistic universal Formal systems of pronouns are grammatical tools that are found in almost all languages. It is one of the four principal components used to probe the underlying patterns of […]

Unravelling the wicked: the 2025 Italian Congress of Semiotics

Sebastián MorenoUniversidad ORT Uruguay8 January 2025 (Palermo, 11-13 December 2025) What do Judas, the Joker, Ivan the terrible, witches, werewolves, the Devil, Adolf Hitler, Donald Trump (and his signature), ravers, prisons, the military in South […]

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From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Wisdom

From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Wisdom By Dr. Robert Finkelstein Robotic Technology Inc.,President and University of Maryland As with “intelligence,” there are many definitions of wisdom and none are totally satisfactory. Our pragmatic definition of wisdom is: a system […]

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Webinar on the semiotics of today’s orientalism.

Webinar on the semiotics of today’s orientalism by Professor Lia Yoka (Aristotle University Thessaloniki) Orientalist painting: rigid metaphors, flexible meanings Abstract The allure and cultural backwardness of an imaginary East in dominant Western discourse, a set of values and stereotypes […]

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Smart Semiotics webinar – “The semiotics of contemporary currency design”

Title: “The semiotics of contemporary currency design” Description: Banknotes and coins are material objects that circulate in our everyday lives. We recognize them as such thanks to their appearance and, particularly, to their design. In […]

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Facial expression, a gateway to affective semiotics

Announcing a webinar on Facial expression, a gateway to affective semiotics by Marc Mehu, Department of Psychology, Webster Vienna Private University. Sunday January 19, 2025, at 04:00 PM GMT (UTC +0) In communication, the access to […]

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Attention Mechanism in AI Systems and its Relevance for Textual Pragmatics,a webinar by Prof. Kristian Bankov (New Bulgarian University)

Attention mechanism in AI systems and its relevance for textual pragmatics Sun, 8 Dec 2024, 15:00 UTC Prof. Kristian Bankov, New Bulgarian University The discovery of the attention mechanism in deep learning algorithms became for […]

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