Sites of Significance for
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Sites of Significance for
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Foreword
If
you use this page to build your own, please have the courtesy of
providing a link to this site. This is standard practice in a
community of scholars, even on the WWW. This page is called "Sites of
Significance for Semiotics": please read the name and title at the
top of this page and quote them correctly -- it makes a great
difference for search engines.
If you are not yet familiar with
quoting from or referring to electronic documents, the Purdue
University Writing Lab has provided a very practical guide,
Documenting
Electronic Sources .
The page provides pointers to numerous online style manuals for
citing electronic sources (MLA, APA and discipline-specific).
I have
tried to be considerate and address all kinds of semiotic interests
in putting this resource site together. Yet, I obviously could not
include the hundreds of home pages providing course descriptions, or
a great many isolated essays located hither and thither in the bulk
of personal home pages. If you wish to find custom-tailored
information, I highly recommend paying a visit to the
Alta
Vista Main Page. Alta Vista
provides instant keyword search options among sixty billion word
occurrences in thirty million web documents, making it the largest
gathering of information on the WWW. The sheer quantity of retrieved
information, however, makes Alta Vista's search engine a double-edged
tool, thoroughness sometimes turning to overload or disarray. A query
for "semiotics", for example, returns next to thirty thousand matches
!
To make your searches a little more
accurate, you might want to sample Alta
Vista's Advanced Query. Do
not hesitate to specify ALL parameters, since this does not
significantly slow down searches.
As far as isolated articles are
concerned, I prefer to use the Carl
UnCover database. Carl
UnCover - an institutional site with a free consultation over Telnet
or HTTP - is an "online article delivery service, a table of contents
database, and a keyword index to over 18,000 [mostly
English-language] periodicals". Close to nine million scholarly
papers can be ordered on-line, in which case they may be faxed or
xeroxed and sent to you in sometimes less than an hour, all for a fee
of US $ 10.00 and copy rights. A smaller number of periodicals can be
sent to your desktop in image format, if you are a Windows user. A
nominal fee of $ 25 per annum gives you access to fifty
titles.
A large number of dissertations, as well as
other documents of scholarly relevance, can be bought online through
Contentville.
The client has a choice of .pdf format and classic paper, bound or
unbound.
For bibliographies, Bill Winder from
UBC has pointed out the
CL/MT Research group at the University of Essex
. "It provides easy access
(via the World Wide Web, or email) to over 11,000 bibliographic
entries in linguistics, including the "CSLI Bibliography" and
"Sussex: NLP in the 80's" bibliography, as well as a large (over
6,000 items) database created by members of the CL/MT group at Essex
over the last few years."
In all other cases, I would trust this
page for good finds in and about the semiotic web.
- Voice
of the Shuttle: Literary Theory Page (Alan Liu)
- Put together at the University of
California Santa Barbara, the Voice of the Shuttle has been rated
one of the top 5% web sites. It provides a massive list of links
to essays. Regularly updated, fully searchable by keywords (full
text or page titles). Several mirrors worldwide. Addresses:
general theory, periods, specific theories.
- Humanum.
Research Institute for the Humanities
- Put together by the Chinese
University of Hong Kong. An exceptional resource for philosophy
and reference (with access to hundreds of dictionaries on-line).
Very powerful search engine.
- The
University of California Irvine Critical Theory
Resource
- Fully searchable access to a
large number of the scholarly bibliographies prepared by Special
Collections bibliographer Eddie Yeghiayan, The Wellek Library
Lecturer Bibliographies, The University of California Humanities
Research Institute Bibliographies. Impressive even by specialists'
standards.
- Media
Center - Musée d'Art contemporain de
Montréal
- Art history. Theory. Museology.
Databanks.
- Literary
Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch)
- "This page, named one of the Top
5% of the Internet by Point, is a collection of links to sites on
the Internet dealing especially with English and American
literature, excluding single electronic texts, and is limited to
collections of information useful to academics." Addresses:
periods, genres, theory, general reference.
- Cyberspace,
Hypertext, and Critical Theory (George P. Landow)
- "This collection of interlinked
materials, which by April 1998 has grown to include some 7,000
documents and images, began as an Intermedia web that supported
courses taught at Brown University. [...] The web consists
of student projects from my courses on Hypertext and Literary
Theory and Cyberspace, Virtual Reality, and Critical Theory, but
people from outside Brown have also added materials and
suggestions." On the hodgey-podgey side but extensive on
postmodern topics.
- ÉCLAT:
The "Essential" Comparative Literature and Theory
Site
- From the Program of Comparative
Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania.
A good site for resources at large, with special interests in
comparative literature. Provides selective access to web sites of
a literary or cultural bent, journals, theory sites and text
archives.
- Netscape
Search Category: Semiotics
- A decent clearly organised and
concise list of pointers from a general provider.
- The
Media and Communication Studies Page (Daniel
Chandler)
- A thorough gathering of
up-to-date and well-sorted encyclopedic resources. Addresses
Textual Analysis/Analysis
of Media texts, Theories
of Media Influence, Theories of Active Interpretation, Gender,
Ethnicity and Class, The Written and Spoken Word, The Visual
Image, News Media & Advertising, TV & Radio, Film Studies,
Media Education. A good source for single essays.
- Communication
Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies Infobase (Mick
Underwood)
- A strangely laid out primer on
communication and media studies. Contains a subsection on
semiotics
with original content. [Capricious scripting under
Explorer].
- Internet
Semiotics Encyclopaedia
(Göran Sonesson)
- An exceptional resource. "Most of
the entries published here were created for an encyclopaedia of
semiotics , but were only published (by Oxford University Press
1999) in a reduced and rather revised version; indeed, some of
them were not published at all. I have therefore decided to make
the original versions available on the net, and to supplement them
with some other similar texts. Most of the entries are about
visual semiotics, but some of them also concern more general
concepts and other semiotic domains."
- Semiotics
for Beginners (Daniel Chandler)
- An introductory essay with a good
bibliography and glossary
on semiotics. Greek
Translation,
U.S.
Mirror, Brazilian
Mirror (old).
- Semiolinks
(Göran Sonesson)
- A carefully thought-out annotated
list of links. Excellent for conference announcements.
- Semiótica
de la cultura (Göran Sonesson)
- A partial translation of the
above into Spanish.
- Sémiotique
de la culture (Göran Sonesson)
- A partial translation of the
above into French.
- Semiotics
(Martin Ryder)
- Basics. Resources. Journals.
People. Readings. Book announcements. Ryder has added more links,
notably to isolated essays and articles. German
Mirror.
- Sémiotique
de l'école de Paris (Joseph Courtés)
- A short essay presenting the
Paris School and downloadable files - a bibliography and a
résumé.
- Apuntes
de Linguística y semiótica (Alfredo Elejaldre,
Lima)
- On the light side for
linguistics, but provides a good breakdown of individual semiotic
topics.
- Semiotic
Links (Center for Applied Semiotics, Indiana
University)
- A good list of carefully selected
links.
- Archivo
virtual de semiótica
- Rich content gathered from
various discussions. Interesting reading.
- Critical
Theory and Human Computer Interaction (Eric
Brunick)
- A respectable synthetic essay of
general interest defining theory from a semiotic vantage point
(Derrida, Winograd).
- Semiotics/Boundary
Math (Don Kunze)
- Architecture, visual arts, math,
Saussure - all twirled together in some kind of good paper
defining the "boundary approach".
- Semiotics
according to Robert Marty
- A thorough introduction with a
peirceian slant. Also in French and Spanish [flighty Java
scripting at the start].
- This
is Semiotics? (Floyd Merrell)
- Somewhat of a retraction after
Peirce's Semiotics NOW: A Primer, and an attempt at
"present[ing] semiotics in simple terms by avoiding much
academese and esoteric jargon".
- Semiotics
and Media (Tom Streeter)
- "A hypertext essay and tutorial
on using semiotic techniques to analyze advertising, media, and
contemporary culture. It is still under construction".
- Background
Materials: Formalist and Structuralist Ideas (David
Arnason)
- A list of notes on critical
theory that covers much of the semiotic map.
- Theory
courses (David Teague)
- Poorly laid-out lecture notes and
material, but the content is rich, informed and precise, with
syntheses ranging from Freud to Shelley.
- American
Communication Association WWW
- "This site provides information
about the ACA, a collection of materials on communication law and
First Amendment issues, resources for teaching and research in
communication studies, and an extensive reference resource page
for scholars and activists."
- La
République internationale des Lettres
- A truly impressive array of some
six hundred papers published by the paper equivalent of the site
over the last three years. Its name list of sixteen hundred
authors provides a microcosm of the intellectual life of France
over the period, with thinkers such as Hannah Arendt,
Étienne Balibar, Julia Kristeva, Platon, Gilles Lipovetsky
and others being published, discussed, reviewed or quoted.
Contains extensive links to literary sites.
- yourDictionary
- Thousands of online dictionary
and glossary. The popular Web of Online Dictionaries has
been folded into the site.
-
Communication
Theory (semiotics, codes, meaning)
- A very limited presentation of a
dozen key terms. Part of a larger introduction to
Communication.
- Communication
Studies 101
- An introductory slideshow
presenting basic terms and notions.
- Definitions
of Semiotic Terms (Tom Streeter)
- A short lexicon of common
terms.
- Glossaire
de sémiotique
(Pascal Vaillant)
- A careful dictionary of some
humdred entries.
- Semiological
Terms - Roland Barthes
(Ron Wright)
- A small glossary of a dozen key
words.
- Semiotic
Terms (C. Joslyn)
- A hypertextual dictionary of
terms from semantics and control as developed by Joslyn,
supplemented from the Glossary of Semiotics by Vincent
Colapietro. Mirrored by Mario
Ernesto de Silva e Souza (Brazil).
- Words
of Art: An On-line Glossary of Theory and Criticism for the Visual
Arts
- A hypertextual and alphabetical
dictionary of terms.
- Dictionnaire
des arts médiatiques
- Over two thousand entries
covering multimedia processes, instruments, theory and
criticism.
- University
of Alberta Cognitive Science Dictionary
- A hypertextual dictionary
providing definitions, correlates and some references.
- Linguistics
Glossary (Summer Institute of Linguistics)
- "This is a glossary of terms used
in the morphological, syntactic, and pragmatic analysis of text.
It does not necessarily include terms specific to particular
theoretical models (e.g. tagmeme). The glossary was compiled by
the International Linguistics Department of the Summer Institute
of Linguistics (Dallas, TX). It has been published on
CD-ROM".
- Lexicon
of Linguistics (Utrecht University)
- A very thorough hypertextual
dictionary of linguistics by Jan Don, Johan Kerstens, Eddy Ruys
and Joost Zwarts. Now user-expandable. Older version under
Lexicon
of Linguistics (Stuttgart)
- Movie
Terminology Glossary
- "Here, you will find definitions
of terms and phrases frequently used in the world of movies, film,
acting, and cinemagoing".
- Nonverbal
Dictionary of Gestures, Signs and Body Language
Cues
- An original reference source for
the study of kinesics. From Adam's-Apple-Jump to
Zygomatic Smile.
- Glossary
of Poetic Terms (Robert Schubinski)
- Provides a broad range of
definitions with examples and pronunciation. Hyper-linked keywords
& cross references for a large number of prosodic, poetic and
stylistic terms.
- La
CLÉ. Répertoire de procédés
littéraires
- An all-encompassing presentation
of stylistic figures and rhetorical and linguistic terminology
used to describe them.
- Silva
Rhetoricae. The Forest of Rhetoric (Gideon
Burton)
- A guide to the terms of classical
and renaissance rhetoric [...] both on the small scale
(definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the large
scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has
fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+
years)".
- Online
Symbolism Dictionary (Allison Protas)
- "This symbolism dictionary
endeavors to provide some possible cultural significances of
various symbols, and suggest ways in which those symbols may have
been used in context. Most symbols are not code signals, like
traffic lights, where red means stop and green means go, but part
of a complex language in which green can mean jealousy or
fertility or even both, depending on context".
- Dictionnaire
international des termes littéraires (ENESLIT,
Jean-Marie Grassin)
- A very complete critical
dictionary of literary terms. Nineteen letters are under way, with
several entries awaiting completion. Also offers a database of
literary scholars. Exceptional quality [but left navigation
bar illegible].
- Glossaire
du théâtre (André
Bourassa)
- A hypertextual and alphabetical
dictionary of terms.
- Glossary
of Literary Theory (Greig Henderson & Christopher
Brown)
- Prototype version of a promising
dictionary for the theory of literature.
- IASS/AIS
Semiotic Publications - Journals
- A most comprehensive list of
periodicals.
- Media
and Communication Studies: Journals
- A selection of a a couple hundred
links to online journals and online pages about
periodicals.
- Project
Muse
- Project Muse provides access to
the full text of well over one hundred periodicals from ten major
American publishers. It "covers the fields of literature and
criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural
studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many
others". Subscription.
- Les
revues culturelles
- A very thorough detailed
inventory of French periodicals. Searchable by topic and
title.
- Semiotics
at Walter de Gruyter
- The descriptive catalogue of
publications in semiotics by Mouton. Includes Sebeok's famous
series, Approaches
to Semiotics, and
Semiotica.
- E-zine-list
(John Labovitz)
- The most thorough index of
electronic publication - well over four thousand periodicals.
Sorted by keywords and names, with full description and links. No
longer maintained as of December 1999 - unfortunately.
- Online
Journals
(NYU)
- Most online full text periodicals
sorted by discipline.
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- American
Journal of Semiotics
(Richard L. Lanigan)
- Themes of some forty
issues.
- Analyses.
Langages, textes et sociétés
- A periodical devoted to
French-speaking Africa. Tables of contents for five
issues.
- Applied
Semiotics/Sémiotique
appliquée (Peter
Marteinson & Pascal Michelucci)
- Bilingual peer-reviewed Toronto
periodical. Nine issues online.
- CECCS
Technical Reports/Cadernos do CECCS
- Four pre-print summaries of technical reports from a group
working on semiotics and cognition.
- Cahiers
du CRESLEF (Pierre Masselot)
- Contact information and scanty content information.
- Canadian
Journal of Communication
- Abstracts and tables of contents
for twenty-nine issues.
- Champs
du signe
- Tables of contents for all
issues.
- Dialogism:
An International Journal of Bakhtin Studies
- Tables of contents for two issues
and contacts.
- Elementa.
The Journal of Slavic Studies and Comparative Cultural
Semiotics (Vyacheslav Ivanov)
- A general information page courtesy of The
Signpost.
- Face.
Revista de semiótica e communicaçaõ
(Philadelpho
Menezes)
- Tables of content for six issues.
One issue online [In Portuguese].
- Intellectica:
la revue de l'Association pour la Recherche
Cognitive (John
Stewart)
- Contents and summaries for twenty
issues.
- International
Journal for the Semiotics of Law/Revue internationale de
sémiotique juridique
(Dragan Milovanovic)
- All tables of contents, with
abstracts and offprint offers where available. One full issue
online.
- International
Journal of Applied Semiotics (IJAS)
(Linda Rogers, Susan Tucker, Marcel Danesi)
- Editorial and subscription
information. "IJAS is a refereed journal published twice a year in
the spring and the fall for the special interest group in
semiotics of the American Educational Research Association by
Atwood Publishing "
- Journal
of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information
Transmission (Bruce
Edmonds)
- Seven issues online.
- Legal
Semiotics Monographs
- A list of titles in the series,
with tables of content.
- Lexia
(Guido Ferraro)
- A periodical bulletin and more.
Thirteen issues and quality resources. [In
Italian].
- Protée
(Francine Belle-Isle)
- Tables of content for twenty
issues [In French].
- Publications
of the Center for Semiotics at the University of
Aarhus
- Abstracts for four issues of
Almen Semiotik.
- Revista
Chilena de Semiótica (Rafael del Villar
Muñoz)
- Three issues online [ Mostly
Spanish].
- Recherches
Sémiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry
(Barbara Havercroft)
- Tables of contents for the last
six issues. Announced in 1996 they would soon feature all issues
on-line.
- Revue
Communication. Revue québécoise des recherches et
des pratiques en communication et information
- Tables of content for eighteen
issues (and some summaries).
- SEMA
- The University of Toronto Semiotics Forum
(Christopher Woodill)
- Six articles available via
Gopher.
- Semiotica
(Thomas A. Sebeok)
- Thirty three tables of content
between 1997 and 2000.
- Semiotic
Review of Books (Gary
Genosko)
- Alphabetical index of past issues
with some available full-text papers (three latest issues),
up-to-date conference information. Austrian
mirror. Dutch
mirror. Chinese
mirror.
- Sign
Systems Studies (Peeter
Torop, Michail Lotman, Kalevi Kull)
- Tables of content for two issues.
List of twenty seven issues.
- Social
Semiotics (David
Birch)
- Tables of contents for twelve
issues Slow server.
- Texto!
(Espace virtuel de l'équipe Sémantique des
textes) (François
Rastier)
- Periodically updated. Dialogues,
debates, book-reviews, bibliographies and papers.
- Transactions
of the Charles S. Peirce Society
- Tables of content for two issues. Thirty-three years of
indexes.
- Visio.
Revue internationale de sémiotique visuelle/International
Journal for Visual Semiotics
(Fernande Saint-Martin, Marie Carani)
- Tables of contents for twelve
issues.
- Zäsuren.
Césures. Ruptures
- One issue announced.
- Zeitschrift
für Semiotik (Roland
Posner)
- Description of twenty years of
publication. Summaries for thirty issues.
- Znakolog.
An International Yearbook of Slavic Semiotics
- Tables of contents for six
issues.
- American
Journal of Philology
- Five years of issues. Free sample
issue.
- Applied
Cognitive Psychology
- Tables of content for thirty
issues.
- Arachnion.
A Journal of Literature and Ancient History on the
Web
- Four issues, to read on-line or
download. Exceptional cross-platform.
- Arob@se
- Two issues on-line. "Arob@se is
published twice a year as an interdisciplinary bilingual forum
(English-French) for researchers in literature and human sciences
wishing to promote their work through electronic publishing. The
consultation of the review is entirely free of
charge."
- Babel
- A multilingual, multicultural
community/journal of arts and ideas.
- Canadian
Aesthetics Journal / Revue canadienne
d'esthétique
- Four issues online.
- Cognitive
Science. A Multidisciplinary Journal
- Free online access to
members.
- Common
Knowledge
- A multidisciplinary journal from
Oxford University Press, dedicated to undermining all foundational
structures that impede agreement. Index for sixteen issues
available.
- Configurations.
A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
- Eleven issues on-line.
Searchable. "Configurations is the only journal devoted to
the study of discourse pertaining to the theories and practices of
science, technology, and medicine".
- Critical
Inquiry
- Tables of contents from September
1974 to December 1996. Excerpts from the last ten
issues.
- CTheory.
Theory Technology Culture
- A smattering of papers on things
postmodern. "Articles, interviews, and key book reviews in
contemporary discourse are published weekly as well as
theorisations of major 'event-scenes' in the
mediascape".
- Diacritics
- Strictly publishing information.
An address. Disappointingly low in informational
content.
- Didascalia.
A Journal for Philosophy and Philology from Late Antiquity to the
Renaissance
- Three papers on-line.
- Didaskalia.
Recherches sur la communication et l'apprentissage des sciences et
des techniques
- Tables of contents for thirteen
issues.
- Electronic
Journal of Analytic Philosophy
- Four issues on-line.
- Formal,
Computational and Cognitive Linguistics
- A periodical from Russia with
Chomsky, Shaumyan and Fillmore among its editors. Four issues
online [mostly in Russian].
- Hypermedia
Joyce Studies. An Electronic Journal of Joycean
Scholarship
- Six papers on-line and good
contacts. A promising endeavour.
- Iris.
A Journal of Image and Sound [Film
Studies]
- Tables of contents for the first
twenty issues. French and English abstracts for all the articles
in the last four issues (issues not dated).
- Janus
Head. Continental Philosophy, Literature, Phenomenological
Psychology
- Five issues online.
- Journal
of Computer-Mediated Communication
- Four issues on-line and
abstracts.
- Journal
of Mind and Behavior
- "The Journal of Mind and
Behavior is dedicated to the interdisciplinary approach within
psychology and related fields - building upon the assumption of a
unified science." Most abstracts between Spring 1980 and Winter
1995. Searchable.
- Journal
of Pragmatics
- Tables of contents for twenty-six
issues. Free issue upon request.
- Language
& Communication. An Interdisciplinary Journal
- Tables of contents for eight
issues. Free issue upon request.
- Language
Sciences
- Tables of contents for seven
issues. Free issue upon request.
- Logos
and Language. Journal of General Linguistics and Language
Theory
- A new periodical from Gunter
Narr.
- Marges
linguistiques
- A promising new French periodical
(first issue in May 2001). Will also provide full-text
dissertations in the field of the language siences.
- Metaphor
and Symbol
- Tables of contents for fifty-one
issues.
- Modern
Fiction Studies
- Tables of contents for eight
issues. One issue on-line.
- Modern
Language Notes
- Tables of contents for sixteen
issues.
- Music
Theory Online
- Tables of contents and full
papers for twenty-seven issues. Also a discussion list and an
archive of dissertations (abstracts and tables of contents).
Searchable.
- New
Comparison. A Journal of Comparative and General Literary
Studies
- Twenty-five issues on-line,
between Summer 1986 to Spring 1998.
- Part
2
- Online periodical devoted to
modern art.
- P
e r f o r a t i o n s
- Perforations is a
quarterly journal/media kit. Each issue develops different themes
of contemporary life as they relate to technology. Thirteen issues
on-line.
- Poetics.
Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, Media and the
Arts
- Tables of contents for eighteen
issues. Free issue upon request.
- Poetics
Today
- One issue on-line. Tables of
contents for three issues.
- Pragmatics
and Cognition
- Tables of contents for six
issues.
- PSYCHE:
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on
Consciousness
- Six issues and many book reviews
on-line. Searchable.
- HyperPsycoloquy.
A Peer-Reviewed Interdisciplinary Electronic
Journal
- Six issues on-line (more at the
home page - but close that </I> damn it!). Searchable
through hypertext links. A technical standard for all electronic
publishing.
- The
Qualitative Report. Qualitative Research and Critical
Inquiry
- Seven issues on-line.
- Revista
eletrónica de musicologia
- Six issues online.
- Surfaces
- Eight issues on-line.
Searchable.
- Texte.
Revue de critique et de théorie
littéraire
- Tables of contents for all
eighteen thematic issues.
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