Teaching of semiotics, semiotics of teaching

Winfried Nöth's article "The semiotics of teaching and the teaching of semiotics", in which he refers to the joint semiotics review of the PhD students of University of Tartu's Department of Semiotics, is available online. It has been published - last year - as chapter 1 of Inna Semetsky's edited collection Semiotics - Education - Experience (pp. 1-20).

Excerpt (p. 11):

Currently, a much more comprehensive survey of more than 100 introductions to semiotics worldwide is being prepared by K. Kull, M. Tønnessen et al. The author of the present survey acknowledges having profited from the unpublished paper by Kull et al. in updating the bibliographical survey for his own much shorter survey of introductions to semiotics.

Participation at conference to honour Peeter Torop

November 26-27 I was present at the international conference Culture in Mediation: Total Translation, Complementary Perspectives, which was arranged here in Tartu at the occasion of professor Peeter Torop's 60-year birthday. Present were also a number of outstanding semiotic names. For my own part it was not least an opportunity to meet Dinda Gorlée for the very first time, and Winfried Nöth for the second time (first time in Europe).