Category: Authors

In the semioticians’ community, the spring of 2016 has come as mournful as, perhaps, never before. Several weeks ago, Umberto Eco died, and today, only days after his 91st anniversary, Solomon Marcus.

Rhetorical studies, especially those outside of the traditional canon of rhetorical theory, can benefit from the work done by empirical researchers who study psychology and persuasion. A cross-pollination of disciplines opens many new lines of inquiry.

A community is a social unit of divergent size that shares a common goal, ideal and values. This is a standard definition in most theories of communities. This paper seeks to existing understanding through a semiotic account of community based on Peirce and Eco.

I find very stimulating the challenge related to the Semiotics of Cultural Heritage. The accent on selection involves a critical attitude towards the increasing amount of works of all kinds, which have to face our reaction as a choice among acceptance and rejection.

I will start from the question posed by Tina Chanter in a paper published in 1997: “Has Derrida’s work on the question of sexual difference ever been read?” (Chanter, 1997: 87). The question of sexual difference, in Derrida, is in effect, as I’ll try to show, a question of readability.