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.
An illuminating concept: 💎pearl nationalism💎
📄"National revival through submissive women who are like pearls" (Pg. 2)
👉It is a metapolitical project that aligns gendered chronotopes to imagine a return to an imagined tradition through modern mass-mediated spacetime.
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📄"National revival through submissive women who are like pearls" (Pg. 2)
👉It is a metapolitical project that aligns gendered chronotopes to imagine a return to an imagined tradition through modern mass-mediated spacetime.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
An illuminating concept: 💎pearl nationalism💎
📄"National revival through submissive women who are like pearls" (Pg. 2)
👉It is a metapolitical project that aligns gendered chronotopes to imagine a return to an imagined tradition through modern mass-mediated spacetime.
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📄"National revival through submissive women who are like pearls" (Pg. 2)
👉It is a metapolitical project that aligns gendered chronotopes to imagine a return to an imagined tradition through modern mass-mediated spacetime.
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From the Time of Ignorance to the Afterlife: Gendered Chronotopes and Religious Nostalgia in Swahili-Language Islamic Marital Booklets | Signs and Society | Cambridge Core
From the Time of Ignorance to the Afterlife: Gendered Chronotopes and Religious Nostalgia in Swahili-Language Islamic Marital Booklets
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November 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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An illuminating concept from the article: 🕌Prophetic Spacetime🕌
This is Dr. Thompson's term for a chronotope that fuses the Prophet's time-space into a living moral template: timeless, universal, and imagined as a utopian model to which present-day Muslims are called to return.
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This is Dr. Thompson's term for a chronotope that fuses the Prophet's time-space into a living moral template: timeless, universal, and imagined as a utopian model to which present-day Muslims are called to return.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
An illuminating concept from the article: 🕌Prophetic Spacetime🕌
This is Dr. Thompson's term for a chronotope that fuses the Prophet's time-space into a living moral template: timeless, universal, and imagined as a utopian model to which present-day Muslims are called to return.
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This is Dr. Thompson's term for a chronotope that fuses the Prophet's time-space into a living moral template: timeless, universal, and imagined as a utopian model to which present-day Muslims are called to return.
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🕰️Using the lens of "chronotope," Dr. Thompson traces how these texts move across gendered chronotopes shaped by nostalgia, religious authority, and East Africa's shifting sociopolitical landscape.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
🕰️Using the lens of "chronotope," Dr. Thompson traces how these texts move across gendered chronotopes shaped by nostalgia, religious authority, and East Africa's shifting sociopolitical landscape.
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Guest edited by Dr. Aurora Donzelli, this special issue explores practices and ideologies of translation as “an object of ethnographic investigation” within capitalist worldmaking.
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The Translation Machine: Exploring the Infrastructures of Valorization under Semiocapitalism | Signs and Society | Cambridge Core
The Translation Machine: Exploring the Infrastructures of Valorization under Semiocapitalism - Volume 13 Issue 3
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October 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Guest edited by Dr. Aurora Donzelli, this special issue explores practices and ideologies of translation as “an object of ethnographic investigation” within capitalist worldmaking.
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In this piece, Dr. Donzelli walks us through how the featured articles explore translation as both "an essential device for capitalist value projects and a productive analytic prism for understanding our contemporary moment."
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September 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
In this piece, Dr. Donzelli walks us through how the featured articles explore translation as both "an essential device for capitalist value projects and a productive analytic prism for understanding our contemporary moment."
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If you're interested in the semiotic features that distinguish "corporate persons" from human persons, shape their sociopolitical identity, and enable their power in today's global capitalism, this article is for you.
Follow the link below to read more!
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Capitalism and the Semiotics of Corporate Personhood in a Law of Human Persons | Signs and Society | Cambridge Core
Capitalism and the Semiotics of Corporate Personhood in a Law of Human Persons
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September 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
If you're interested in the semiotic features that distinguish "corporate persons" from human persons, shape their sociopolitical identity, and enable their power in today's global capitalism, this article is for you.
Follow the link below to read more!
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Follow the link below to read more!
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https://doi.org/10.1017/sas.2025.10016[Opens
August 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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In this article, the authors explore how “counting” extends beyond mere enumeration—into practices of branding, solidarity, and policing—by rendering unhoused populations into tangible forms like maps and infographics, thereby contributing to broader modes of urban and liberal governance.
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August 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In this article, the authors explore how “counting” extends beyond mere enumeration—into practices of branding, solidarity, and policing—by rendering unhoused populations into tangible forms like maps and infographics, thereby contributing to broader modes of urban and liberal governance.
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Dr. Perrino also develops a theoretical framework for translating “Made-in-Italy” by analyzing translation practices as "fluid and scalar phenomena"—what she terms “inter-scalar translations”—in which scales are intrinsic to these practices themselves.
ENJOY!
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ENJOY!
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July 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Dr. Perrino also develops a theoretical framework for translating “Made-in-Italy” by analyzing translation practices as "fluid and scalar phenomena"—what she terms “inter-scalar translations”—in which scales are intrinsic to these practices themselves.
ENJOY!
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ENJOY!
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In this piece, Dr. Perrino analyzes three narratives from executives of Northern Italian family-owned companies to show how they draw on past and present family histories to shape both individual and collective branding identities.
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July 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
In this piece, Dr. Perrino analyzes three narratives from executives of Northern Italian family-owned companies to show how they draw on past and present family histories to shape both individual and collective branding identities.
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Translating Feelings and Mastering Empathy Statements in New Delhi’s International Call Centers | Signs and Society | Cambridge Core
Translating Feelings and Mastering Empathy Statements in New Delhi’s International Call Centers
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July 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Check out SAS's new article by Dr. Kristina Nielsen @drkristinanielsen.bsky.social examining how call center workers are trained to adopt the semiotic frameworks that make emotive statements intelligible and effective.
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July 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Check out SAS's new article by Dr. Kristina Nielsen @drkristinanielsen.bsky.social examining how call center workers are trained to adopt the semiotic frameworks that make emotive statements intelligible and effective.
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