Instructions in Orchestra Rehearsals – Negotiating the Sound of Music

My esteemed colleague, John BATEMAN, has a habit of distinguishing between simple/basic types of multimodality (e.g., text and image in…

Back to Semiotics – Back to Chemnitz

I had hoped to be able to travel to Chemnitz, where I spent quite a few years of my academic…

When Gunther Kress passed away at a conference in Rome in the summer of 2019, the idea was quickly born…

Old dogs have a hard time learning new tricks. If they have a motivating master who nudges them on to…

Refashioning a cancelled symposium panel (Corona’s fault, partly), we – Jana PFLAEGING, Janina WILDFEUER and me – are hosting an…

Even (more so) in pandemic times, there is never enough breathing space to properly contemplate what one has accomplished. Only…

Thanks to the initiative of my colleagues Markus OPPOLZER and Elisabeth KRIEBER, the annual conference on ‚comics research‘ (run by…

In various situations of use, language confronts serious expressive limitations and runs up against the ineffable, i.e. experiences that cannot…

Edited volumes take particular patience, a high amount of cooperation and across-chapter coherence-generating skills. I found all these gifts in…

The University of Potsdam and its ‚Virtual Centre for Cultural Semiotics‘ will be hosting a truly interesting event from 3…