[Commlist] Sociosemiotic Critique. A Lotmanian Perspective

*Call for papers*

*/Social Semiotics/*

*Issue 5, 2022*

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*Sociosemiotic Critique. A Lotmanian Perspective *

/Edited by Anna Maria Lorusso (University of Bologna) and Franciscu 
Sedda (University of Cagliari)/

In 2022 – the centenary of the birth of Juri Lotman – we invite you to 
focus on the potentiality of his semiotic theory (including ideas of 
as personality, translation, creolization, autocommunication, 
self-description, semiosphere) to critique power structures and 
ideological processes in semiosic phenomena.

We invite contributors to prepare an /analytical /essay focusing on a 
/specific case study/ of a semiotic artefact or type of 
artefact,demonstrating how Lotmanian theory can fuel a critique of the 
limitations on, and variations in, the ways in which the semiotic 
resources/practices in question may perpetuate biases, imbalance or 
legitimize and maintain kinds of power interests.

At this stage, we solicit not papers but a proposal of between 1000 and 
1500 words length, with bibliographic references included. On this 
basis, we will select 8 proposals, to be developed in an essay of 7/8000 
words (bibliography included).

Proposals should be sent to: (annamaria.lorusso /at/ unibo.it) 
<mailto:(annamaria.lorusso /at/ unibo.it)>and (franciscu.sedda /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(franciscu.sedda /at/ gmail.com)>

Publication CfP for proposals: August 2021

Deadline CfP: 30 October 2021

Communication of proposals selected: 15 November 2021

Deadline for papers: 15 March 2022,

Refereeing process: 15 March – 31 May

Delivery of definitive version of texts: 1 August 2022

Publication: October 2022

More info on Social Semiotics at 
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/csos20/current

*About the editors*

*Anna Maria Lorusso*is Associate professor in the Department of Arts of 
Bologna University, where she teaches "Semiotics of Culture" and 
"Analysis of Media Communication".

Since 2017 she is President of the Italian Association of Semiotics.

She is in the board of several international journals: she is 
vice-director of the semiotic journal /VS-Versus. Quaderni di studi 
semiotici/ and in the editorial board of the international journals 
/Nouveaux Actes Sémiotiques/, /Acta Semiotica/, /Comunicaciòn y medios/, 
/De signis/.

Among her last books in English: /MemoSur/MemoSouth. Memory, 
Commemoration and Trauma in Post-Dictatorship Argentina and Chile/ (eds, 
along with A. Sharman,  M. Grass Kleiner and S. Savoini London,  
Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, 2017), /Cultural Semiotics/ 
(London, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2016). She published the entry “Jurij 
Lotman” for the Oxford Bibliographies.

*Franciscu Sedda*is Associate Professor in the Department of Arts, 
Languages and Cultural Heritage of Cagliari University where he teaches 
“General Semiotics” and “Cultural Semiotics”. He has occupied the 
position of vice-president in the Italian Association of Semiotic 
Studies (2007-2009) and since January 2017 is the Secretary General of 
the Italian Society of Philosophy of Language. He edited the collection 
of essays by Jurij Lotman /Tesi per una semiotica delle culture /(Rome, 
2006), the book /Retorica / (Rome, 2021) and wrote the entry “Semiotics 
of Culture(s)” for the /International Handbook of Semiotics /(Berlin, 
2015)/. /Along with Ugo Dessì he recently edited a number of /Glocalism 
- //Journal of Culture, Politics, and Innovation/, entitled 
/ Glocalization and Everyday Life/ (2021). Among his other main fields 
of research there are the development of a general semiotic theory, the 
relation between media and political communication, the history of 
Sardinian culture and consciousness.

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