20th NASS newsletter

The 20th Newsletter of the Nordic Association for Semiotic studies has been issued and is available along with other newsletters here. Inesa Sahakyan and Lauri Linaks are newsletter editors. The NASS newsletter has been issued since 2012.

Special issue "Anticipation and change" from NASS XI (Stavanger 2019) published

Sign Systems Studies vol. 49 No. 1-2 (2021), the special issue "Anticipation and change", has appeared. It draws on papers from NASS XI, held in Stavanger in June 2019 (I was chair of the organizing committee).

Table of contents:

Editorial: Anticipation and Change (7-11)

Lauri Linask, Inesa Sahakyan, Aleksei Semenenko

Articles

Anticipating the societal transformation required to solve the environmental crisis in the 21st century (12-62)

Morten Tønnessen 

Solar energy discourse in the Sunshine State (63-85)

Prisca Augustyn 

Music as a non-arbitrary avenue for exploration of the social (86-107)

Juha Ojala

Towards the semiotics of the future: From anticipation to premediation (108-131)

Katre Pärn

Towards an integration of two aspects of semiosis – A cognitive semiotic perspective (132-165)

Piotr Konderak

Metaphor, induction and innovation: Getting outside the box (166-190)

Inesa Sahakyan

Trajectories of anticipation: Preconceptuality and the task of reading habit (191-215)

Sebastian Feil

Narratives and the semiotic freedom of children (216-234)

Sara Lenninger

The dialogic nature of double consciousness and double stimulation: Implications from Peirce and Vygotsky (235-261)

Donna E. West

"The societal transformation required to solve the environmental crisis in the 21st century" to appear as Sign Systems Studies article

I have been invited to publish my paper "The societal transformation required to solve the environmental crisis in the 21st century", presented at the 11th conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS XI), "Anticipation and change", in a special issue of Sign Systems Studies with the same theme. Guest editors are Lauri Linask, Inesa Sahakyan and Aleksei Semenenko. The special issue is planned published in the autumn of 2020. I have confirmed my intention to get my paper included in the special issue.

10th newsletter of NASS finished; call for GA in Kaunas

I have just taken part in finishing the 10th newsletter of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies, along with Inesa Sahakyan. The issue includes a call for the NASS general assembly, to take place June 30th in Kaunas, Lithuania.

9th newsletter of NASS finished

Today I have taken part in finishing the 9th newsletter of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies, which I edit along with Inesa Sahakyan.

8th NASS newsletter composed and distributed

Some days back, in collaboration with co-editor Inesa Sahakyan, I finished the 8th newsletter of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (12 pp). It has been distributed to all NASS members, including participants of the upcoming conference NASS IX (Tartu, August 17-20).

7th Nordic semiotics (NASS) newsletter prepared

This week I have taken part in composing the 7th newsletter of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS), along with fellow Newsletter editor Inesa Sahakyan.