Open AccessIntroduction: Semiotics and history revisited
Author(s) -
Marek Tamm
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
sign systems studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.17
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1736-7409
pISSN - 1406-4243
DOI - 10.12697/sss.2017.45.3-4.01
Subject(s) - semiotics , frame (networking) , sociology , social semiotics , visual semiotics , focus (optics) , art history , epistemology , history , art , philosophy , computer science , telecommunications , physics , optics
The introductory article proposes to offer a general frame for the special issue, discussing the emergence of semiotics of history as a new discipline or approach in the humanities. It presents an overview on the attempts of joining the history and semiotics in the Western world since the early 1980s, with a special focus on the United States, and examines the contribution of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics to the semiotic study of history, paying the main attention to the work of Juri Lotman and Boris Uspenskij. Finally, a survey of the articles that make up the special issue dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Boris Uspenskij is presented.