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Signs and Society
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An open access, multidisciplinary journal in the humanities and social sciences focusing on the role of sign processes (or semiosis) in social interaction, cognition, and cultural formations.
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Signs and Society 13:3 is now live!

📘 The Translation Machine: Infrastructures of Valorization under Semiocapitalism

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🆕 New Article!
Check out Dr. Catherine Tebaldi’s (@cat-tebaldi.bsky.social) new article on "tradwives," who are social media influencers who promote an idealized, "feminine" womanhood by staging nostalgic chronotopes of tradition, from 1850s homesteads to 1950s suburban homes.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
🆕New Article
Check out Dr. KD Thompson's @katrinadalythompson.com new article examining ✨nearly a century of Swahili-language Islamic marital booklets✨
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November 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
🎊New Issue Available! 🎊

Signs and Society 13:3 is now live!

📘 The Translation Machine: Infrastructures of Valorization under Semiocapitalism

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October 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
🆕 JUST PUBLISHED!
Check an introductory article for the upcoming (soon!) special issue “The Translation Machine: Infrastructures of Valorization under Semiocapitalism" written by Dr. Aurora Donzelli.

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September 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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NEW PUB by 2024-25 CASBS fellow Matthew Hull in Signs and Society, "Capitalism and the Semiotics of Corporate Personhood in a Law of Human Persons"

Matt wrote the paper at CASBS 😏

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September 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
🚨 New Article Alert! 🚨

Check out Dr. Matthew Hull’s latest article on the semiotics of corporate personhood—how signs construct corporations as “legal persons.” 💼

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September 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
🚨New FirstView Article Alert!🚨

Check out SAS's latest article by Drs. Alfonso Del Percio and Cécile Vigouroux, examining how translation practices render unhoused individuals into quantifiable data 📊
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August 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🎉New Issue Available!🎉

Signs and Society 13:2 is now LIVE! 🙌

Dive into a wide-ranging collection of new articles, spanning topics from Fanfa bands to Artificial Intelligence!

LINK: bit.ly/41jDFD0
August 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🚨New Article Alert!🚨
Add Dr. Sabina Perrino’s @sabyperri.bsky.social latest article on translating “Made-in-Italy” to your 🌞summer reading list🌞!
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LINK: doi.org/10.1017/sas....
July 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
🚨New Article Alert!🚨
"I can understand how frustrating the situation is."
We've all heard phrases like this from call centers--but what makes them work? 📞
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July 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
🔎 Zooming into our most recent issue!

Read Dr. Anna Weichselbraun's @annaw.bsky.social article on "nuclear nonproliferation," where she explains what happens to nuclear verification when efforts to make nuclear materials more transparent fail.

LINK: doi.org/10.1017/sas....
June 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🔎 Zooming into our most recent issue!

In our latest issue on "semiotic indeterminacy," Drs. Wolfgram and Larson explore the internship🧑‍💼, where they closely examine two life history narratives of interns to analyze the "semiotic ambiguity" of participant roles arising in the internship economy. 🧵1/2
June 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
🔎 Zooming into our most recent issue!

In our 🎈latest issue🎈 on "semiotic indeterminacy," Dr. Bonnie Urciuoli introduces a concept of “strategically deployable shifters” (SDS). 🧵1/3
May 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
🔎 Zooming into our most recent issue!

Check out the article in our 🎈latest issue 🎈 on "semiotic indeeterminacy" by Dr. Ilana Gershon (structureless.bsky.social)! 🧵1/3
May 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🎉New Issue Available!

Signs and Society 13:1 is now live!

This special issue, guest edited by Dr. Ilana Gershon (@structureless.bsky.social), explores the theme of "political uses of semiotic indeterminacy."
May 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🔖 About Signs and Society...
"How Signs and Society Came All About"

Dr. Richard Parmentier explains the history of the collaborative relationship between the Semiosis Research Center at HUFS (South Korea) and Brandeis University (USA) in publishing Signs and Society.

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May 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
💡About Signs and Society…

Signs and Society is an open-access, interdisciplinary journal on "semiosis" in social interaction, cognition, and cultural formations. We invite innovative and collaborative works that examine how semiosis unfolds across diverse domains.
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April 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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April 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
🎉 Signs and Society is now on Bluesky! 🎉

Signs and Society is an open-access, multidisciplinary journal exploring how sign processes (semiosis) shape social interaction, cognition, and culture.
April 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM