[ecrea] CFP; Narrative and semiosis - 11th World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Nanjing, China (5 – 9 October 2012)

*Call for papers: Narrative and semiosis *

Special panel at the 11^th World Congress of the International 
Association for Semiotic Studies, Nanjing, China (5 – 9 October 2012)

convened by

Yiheng Zhao (Sichuan University)

Paul Cobley (London Metropolitan University)

and

Marina Grišakova (University of Tartu)

In tandem with the increasing awareness of the omnipresence of narrative 
in human environments, the conditions are ripe for a general semiotics 
of narrative. Clearly, this does not simply entail narratology, or a 
semiology of narrative in which merely the internal mechanisms of 
narratives are identified and analysed. Rather, in the face of 
contemporary studies of narrative - in the social sciences, cognitive 
science, postclassical narratology and systems theory - the relations 
between narrative and semiosis need to be considered on a much wider 
basis, including those to do with cognition, networks and systems.

This panel therefore seeks to address the following questions:

· What are the current relations between semiotics and narrative?

· Does narrative theory have a wider semiotic (rather than just a 
semiological/narratological) background?

· What are the details of this background?

We will be particularly interested to receive abstracts for papers which 
are concerned with the following issues:

· the role of semiotics in helping to find pre-conditions for narrative 
creativity/production – semiotic environments, conditions, tools;

· the nature of narrative as a networked phenomenon;

· the development of multi-tracking, navigating, networking, blending 
and enactivism in current narrative theory;

· the specific character of networking – distributed and blended (the 
idea that ‘there is nothing in the mind’; that ‘everything is networked’);

· proposals for solutions to the difficulty found by cognitive science 
in identifying the locations of network functions;

· the role of emotions in nodal points of networks (e.g. narrative and 
game-playing)

· the condition of narrative as /experienced/ within a network;

· narrative and distributed cognition;

· remediation – current uses of narrative and contemporary ‘content’ of 
narratives.

Papers on narrative in any medium will be welcomed.

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words, as a Rich Text Format 
document attached to an email, to the panel organizers

(zhaoyiheng2011 /at/ 163.com) <mailto:(zhaoyiheng2011 /at/ 163.com)>

(marina.grisakova /at/ ut.ee) <mailto:(marina.grisakova /at/ ut.ee)>

(p.cobley /at/ londonmet.ac.uk) <mailto:(p.cobley /at/ londonmet.ac.uk)>

by 27 February 2012

Main Congress website: http://www.semio2012.com/



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