REVIEWS

Pronominal Systems:  Patterns of Change in Perspective Paul Bouissac (University of Toronto) Let us consider some of the morpho-syntactic and pragmatic changes that have occurred recently, or are currently happening in the pronominal systems of […]

By John McClelland Given that sports matches and performances function in very similar material contexts – a group of persons passively observe another group, active but smaller, execute a set of verbal and/or bodily gestures […]

Review of Chris William Martin and Diana McGlinchey, Reading Graffiti: The Semiotics ofStreet Art By Gary Genosko The dynamic definition of graffiti that the authors adopt – “to act against a surface” – emphasizes encounters […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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). […]

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 […]

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 […]