[Linganth] CfP + new article: Dialogues between Continental Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology

[Constantine Nakassis]

Dear colleagues,

Please see below for the CfP for the newest issue of *Semiotic Review,* as
well as the announcement of a new article in the issue by Massimo Leone and
Webb Keane.

Meghanne Barker and Constantine V. Nakassis
co-editors, *Semiotic Review*

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*Call for Papers: Dialogues between Continental Semiotics and Linguistic
Anthropology, a thematic issue of Semiotic Review*

We are delighted to invite a fresh round of contributions to this open
thematic issue of Semiotic Review <http://www.semioticreview.com/>
*(https://semioticreview.com/
<https://semioticreview.com/>) *(To see the papers already published in the
issue, go to: https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/issue/view/15*.)
“*Dialogues*” *aims to provide a bridge between the semiotic traditions of
North American linguistic anthropology and continental semiotics. While
each has developed out of sustained critical engagement with and expansions
of linguistic structuralism, the two traditions have been in almost no
contact with each other in well-over half-a-century and each has developed
in its own way: linguistic anthropology, under the influence of Jakobson,
Hymes, Goffman, and others, has welded Peircean semiotics to an
ethnographic focus on speech events and face-to-face interaction, and more
recently, to interdiscursive processes of various sorts; continental
semiotics, in particular in France and Italy, through the work of
Benveniste, Greimas, Eco, Fabbri, Fontanille, Latour, and others, has
explored the semiotics of enunciation, nonhuman agency, affect, and
non-linguistic sign systems, initially focused on literary and visual text
analysis and, more recently, with a turn to ethnosemiotics, material
semiotics, forms of life, and the semiosphere.

Despite these differences, these traditions are built on a common bedrock
and continue to be concerned with similar problems, from problems of
deixis, textuality, and subjectivity to the body, experience, and practice,
to questions of circulation, value, and forms of life. This issue aims to
address this gap by creating a space for conceptual translation and
dialogue across our traditions. We encourage submissions that articulate
concepts, thinkers, and methods from both traditions with the aims of
fostering a dialogue across the proverbial pond. The editors of this issue,
Constantine V. Nakassis and Tatsuma Padoan welcome diverse types of
submissions, from scholarly articles to translations of canonical works,
interviews and roundtables to review essays. Submissions, however, should
have a clear engagement with elements of both traditions, linguistic
anthropology and continental semiotics. With the exception of translations,
submissions should be in English. Submissions should be sent to
semioticreview at gmail.com. For more information on how to submit to *Semiotic
Review*, go to https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/submit.

As with all issues of *Semiotic Review, *“Dialogues between Continental
Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology” remains open to submissions on a
rolling basis. Exemplifying this, we are proud to announce the release of
an additional contribution to the issue:

“Semiotic Ideology: A Dialogue across Traditions
<https://doi.org/10.71743/zafmdt34>” by *Massimo* *Leone* and *Webb* *Keane*,
moderated and with a preface by Constantine V. Nakassis. (
https://doi.org/10.71743/zafmdt34.)

*Abstract**:* This dialogue between Webb Keane and Massimo Leone, moderated
and with a preface by Constantine V. Nakassis, explores convergences and
divergences between continental semiotics and North American linguistic
anthropology on the topic of “semiotic ideology.” The discussion ranges
over questions of intellectual genealogy, the status of interpretation, the
epistemology of analysis, and methodology. It is an edited transcription of
the opening session of the “Summer Symposium 2025: Ideologies of
Conservation and Transformation,” organized by Massimo Leone at the
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy, 23 June 2025).
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