REVIEWS

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 […]

REVIEWS

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 […]

REVIEWS

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 […]

REVIEWS

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 […]

REVIEWS

Ai in Communication

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

REVIEWS

Remembering Eliseo Veron

By Gastón Cingolani. Eliseo Verón (1935-2014) was an Argentinian social scientist, and probably the most importantsemiotician that Argentina has given, with a huge influence in Latin America and someEuropean centers. His work constituted an invaluable […]

REVIEWS

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 […]

REVIEWS

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 […]