Sign Systems Studies  

Oliver Laas

Th e notion of dialogue is foundational for both Juri Lotman and Mikhail Bakhtin. It is also central in Charles S. Peirce’s semeiotics and logic. While there are several scholarly comparisons of Bakhtin’s and Lotman’s dialogisms, these have yet to be comp... see more

Aleksei Semenenko

The semiosphere is arguably the most influential concept developed by Juri Lotman, which has been reinterpreted in a variety of ways. This paper returns to Lotman’s original “anthropocentric” understanding of semiosphere as a collective intellect/consciou... see more

Simon Levesque

This paper adopts a comparative approach in order to appreciate the distinct contributions of Arne Næss and Félix Guattari to ecosophy and their respective connections to semiotics. The foundational holistic worldview and dynamics ecosophy propounds show ... see more

Marina Grishakova,Siim Sorokin

Drawing on non-Darwinian cultural-evolutionary approaches, the paper develops a broad, non-representational perspective on narrative, necessary to account for the narrative “ubiquity” hypothesis. It considers narrativity as a feature of intelligent behavi... see more

Sara Cannizzaro

This article argues for a clearer framework of internet-based “memes”. The science of memes, dubbed ‘memetics’, presumes that memes remain “copying units” following the popularisation of the concept in Richard Dawkins’ celebrated work, The Selfish Gene (1... see more

Dinda L. Gorlée

Jakobson introduced the concept of intersemioticity as transmutation of verbal signs by nonverbal sign systems (1959). Intersemioticity generates the linguistic-and- cultural elements of intersemiosis (from without), crystallizing mythology and archetypal... see more

Kalevi Kull

Review of Consensus on Peirce’s Concept of Habit: Before and Beyond Consciousness. (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics 31.) Donna E. West and Myrdene Anderson (eds.). Cham: Springer, 2016, 434 pp.

Ekaterina Velmezova

Review of Ceská teorie: Tendence moderní ceské sémiotiky, by Vít Gvoždiak. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2016. 370 pp.

Kalevi Kull

What kind of evolutionary biology suits cultural research?