Despite our numbers, this community seems to be temporarily dwindling in its output. An ice breaker, therefore, seems to be in order.

In our last post, digitig mentioned an interest in the question “of what it actually is to assign meaning; ‘what is the meaning of “meaning”’, if you like” and exclaimed, “That seems to me to be a semiotic question!” I ( Read more... )

As the creator and maintainer of this community, I feel it behooves me to introduce myself and explain my entrance into the semiotic perspective ( Read more... )

Welcome, everyone, to sign_studies. This is the first and currently the only semiotics community on LiveJournal, a community devoted to the study of signs. It is a place where we can thematically discuss the existence and nature of signs, and how the operation of signs (semiosis) shapes our worlds of experience. Together we will investigate and analyze the ( Read more... )