Social Semiotics

Charlie Hebdo’s controversial cartoons in question: stances, translational narratives and identity construction from a cross-linguistic perspective

Interpersonal metaphor revisited: identification, categorization, and syndrome

“Lucy says today she is a Labordoodle”: how the dogs-of-Instagram reveal voter preferences

Exploring legal discourse: a sociosemiotic (re)construction

Landscapes for “likes”: capitalizing on travel with Instagram

Homeland and its use of bipolar disorder for sensationalist and dramatic effect

A translated volume and its many covers – a multimodal analysis of the influence of ideology

A battlefield or a lecture hall? A contrastive multimodal discourse analysis of courtroom trials

Analysing the teachers’ use of gestures in the classroom: A Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis approach

“What does development stand for?” A socio-semiotic conceptualisation

Attitudinal meaning and social struggle in heavy metal song lyrics: a corpus-based analysis

Political cartoons as carnivalesque: a multimodal discourse analysis of Argentina’s Humor Registrado magazine

Metaphorical representations of “leftover women”: between traditional patriarchy and modern egalitarianism

“Imagine you are auditioning for the Viennese opera”: masterclasses and the assessment of operatic habitus

Selling a presidential candidate: linguistic landscapes in time of presidential elections in Zambia

Deconstructing competing courtroom narratives: representation of social actors

Lamppost networks*: stickers as a genre in urban semiotic landscapes

Recontextualizing racism and segregation by ways of “cozification” in a TV sports broadcast

The myths of beauty, age, and marriage: femvertising by masstige cosmetic brands in the Chinese market

A general narratology

Metaphor and social action: how worker attention is translated into capital

Moral metaphor and gender in Arab visual culture: Debunking Western myths

Towards a multimodal ethnohistorical approach: a case study of bookplates

French engagement versus British commitment. Was it interlingual miscommunication or political manipulation?

A social semiotic analysis of gender power in Nigeria’s newspaper political cartoons

A multimodal approach to video games and the player experience

Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics

One page, two stories: intersemiotic dissonance in a comic adaptation of Journey to the West

Towards a semiotic theory of the corporation

From DJ talk to music journalism*

Digitizing Peircean semiotics to analyze students’ peer-review comments: classroom use of an application in open-source R

A rhetoric of style: Eleanor Rigby and the reordering of popular music

The resemioticisation of the socio-cultural construct of Nowruz festival in Tehran’s “Fatemi Spring” billboards

English in the linguistic landscape of the Palace Museum: a field-based sociolinguistic approach

From gold to futurity: a semiotic overview on trust, legal tender and fiat money

Sustainability in architectural design projects – a semiotic understanding

The semiotics of emoji: the rise of visual language in the age of the internet

“It’s this diversity that makes Australia such a unique country”: nationalism in a multinational marketing campaign

Lavascape: legal spectacle at Kīlauea

The “camptopia” experience: utopia and revolution in media representations of alternative youth sleepaway camps

Semiotics of corruption: ideological complexes in Mexican politics

Vetus Ordo Missae: Italian Catholic priests facing the revival of Latin and traditional liturgy

The message on the street corner: alchemy, public health and the Brussels Manneken Pis urinating statue

Talking heads in Chinese independent cinema: discourses and speaking rights

“Let’s kill him”: self-reference pronouns and speaking roles in capital trials

Towards a general theory of social culture: a review of Yiheng Zhao’s Semiotics: Principles & Problems (3rd Edition)

The observer actant in the contemporary legal discourse: a semiotic meditation*