<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Dear colleagues,</div><div aria-hidden="true" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">We at <i>Semiotic Review </i>are delighted to announce the launch of our newest thematic issue, <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(70,120,134)"><u><a id="m_-6131964369555727496gmail-OWAa23a5cae-e829-1497-0bb4-372957df14d3" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/issue/view/15" title="https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/issue/view/15" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">“Dialogues between Continental Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology,”</a></u></span> edited by <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Constantine</span> V. Nakassis and Tatsuma Padoan. </div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><a href="https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/issue/view/15" target="_blank">https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/issue/view/15</a></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><br></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">The issue includes the introduction plus 7 original articles! As always, we continue accepting submissions for the issue after it has launched. Please see the details below and join the conversation!<br><br></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Introduction: Dialogues between Continental Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology</div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Constantine</span> Nakassis, Tatsuma Padoan (Author)</div><div aria-hidden="true" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calib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g:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Maria Giulia Dondero (Author)</div><div aria-hidden="true" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Entextualizing Thanatopolitics: About Self-Immolation, Images, and the Enunciation of Negation</div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Mariem Guellouz (Author)</div><div aria-hidden="true" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">The Case of The Last of Us: Analyzing Identity from the Perspectives of Continental Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology</div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Enzo D'Armenio (Author)</div><div aria-hidden="true" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Mere Noise or More than Noise? The Interactional Entextualization of Signs in a Rural Encounter</div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Felix Danos (Author)</div><div aria-hidden="true" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">This thematic issue of <i>Semiotic Review </i>aims to create a space for dialogue across <i>continental semiotics</i> and <i>linguistic anthropology</i>, that is, the semiotic traditions that emerged in post-war Europe in the wake of structuralism and, in North America, the branch of anthropology that emerged from the Boasian tradition of situating language in culture. These distinct approaches to theorizing and analyzing meaning-making share common roots (e.g., in linguistic structuralism, in the work between Jakobson, Benveniste, and Levi-Strauss, and in European engagements with Peirce, among other connections) and yet have largely diverged over the last half century and have been in little to no contact since. Semiotics on both sides of the proverbial pond are themselves internally diverse and heterogeneous, characterized by different schools, internal debates, as well as their own dialogues across adjacent approaches and disciplines, from linguistics and philosophy, to cognitive science and psychology, sociology and anthropology, literary studies and art history, among others. This issue provides a space to further explore the points of contact between these lively networks of semiotic thought and to open a channel of communication between these diverse traditions, a space for conversation and cross-fertilization. We encourage submissions that articulate concepts, thinkers, and methods from both traditions, with the aims of fostering a dialogue between continental semiotics and linguistic anthropology (see the <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(70,120,134)"><u><a id="m_-6131964369555727496gmail-OWA154d1070-6e9c-25b6-104f-485d43944e66" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/callforpapers#fn12" title="https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/callforpapers#fn12" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Call for Papers</a></u></span>):</div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fsemioticreview.com%2Fsr%2Findex.php%2Fsrindex%2Fcallforpapers*fn12__%3BIw!!BpyFHLRN4TMTrA!-3GZ7nTJZg8Lx0Vp_p83Cwyu2_ZPCtgN-ufWdwXY1Ajy1SlrZeTP4EhI7pf2AxY-6Dn0Vk1X-j9MIJ8k-O7Boc7o4HH-Aab66KU%24&data=05%7C02%7Cmeghanne.barker%40ucl.ac.uk%7C2a87d4f08a1645ab6e4208ddee552966%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C638928771737278079%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=u2KDEFa61y4sGVrCSwj%2BbRDvUIU6buj3OzHX99Yvt8g%3D&reserved=0" title="Original URL: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/callforpapers*fn12__;Iw!!BpyFHLRN4TMTrA!-3GZ7nTJZg8Lx0Vp_p83Cwyu2_ZPCtgN-ufWdwXY1Ajy1SlrZeTP4EhI7pf2AxY-6Dn0Vk1X-j9MIJ8k-O7Boc7o4HH-Aab66KU$. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/callforpapers#fn12</a> </div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Submissions should be sent to <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(70,120,134)"><u><a id="m_-6131964369555727496gmail-OWAbc07e9e7-e6a9-e454-8268-f1bd2ce6345e" href="mailto:cnakassi@uchicago.edu" title="mailto:cnakassi@uchicago.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">cnakassi@uchicago.edu</a></u></span>, <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(70,120,134)"><u><a id="m_-6131964369555727496gmail-OWAe779e5ec-19ce-a6c6-0ec5-e0cda385ac59" href="mailto:tatsuma.padoan@ucc.ie" title="mailto:tatsuma.padoan@ucc.ie" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;ver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