Semiotics: Bibliographies, Journals, Databases

Research about the semiology of Ferdinand de Saussure

Research about the Cours de linguistique générale

Select works of and about the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce.

Select works of Roland Barthes

Select works of Umberto Eco.

Select works of Marcel Danesi.

Select works of John Deely.

Select works of Roberta Kevelson

Select works of Christian Metz

The bibliography provides a list of all known English-language publications by Juri M. Lotman (including in co-authorship and reprints), in chronological order, described de visu. The first English translation of J. Lotman’s work appeared in 1973, altogether there is 109 entries in the list. The bibliography demonstrates that in the 1970s and 1980s, most of the translations were published in the context of slavistics, whereas after 2000 Lotman’s work starts to appear in the anthologies of general semiotics.

In order to estimate the current situation of teaching materials available in the fi eld of semiotics, we are providing a comparative overview and a worldwide bibliography
of introductions and textbooks on general semiotics published within last 50 years, i.e.
since the beginning of institutionalization of semiotics. In this category, we have found
over 130 original books in 22 languages. Together with the translations of more than
20 of these titles, our bibliography includes publications in 32 languages. Comparing
the authors, their theoretical backgrounds and the general frames of the discipline of
semiotics in different decades since the 1960s makes it possible to describe a number of predominant tendencies. In the extensive bibliography thus compiled we also include separate lists for existing lexicons and readers of semiotics as additional material not covered in the main discussion. Th e publication frequency of new titles is growing, with a certain depression having occurred in the 1980s. A leading role of French, Russian and Italian works is demonstrated.

Semiotica is the official journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, publishing peer-reviewed research in English and French across all branches of semiotics in six issues annually since 1969, and known for its interdisciplinary and global scope including special thematic issues and the annual Mouton d’Or award.

Semiotics is a peer-reviewed series sponsored by the Semiotic Society of America. SSA supports innovative scholarship linking analytical and critical approaches to the postmodern world. The Yearbook provides a timely overview of current developments in semiotic research and an outlet for Society members to publish aspects of their current work. First published in 1980, this series provides a unique overview of the development of semiotics in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The American Journal of Semiotics is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research publication sponsored by the Semiotic Society of America. It publishes original contributions in the form of topical articles, response articles, and critical reviews on any subject related to the science of signs and meaning, whether theoretical, methodological, or applied. Open to all semiotic traditions, the journal expects submissions to make advances in fundamental sign theory, or to leverage semiotic methodologies for interpretive exploration of communication processes throughout the semiotic sphere, whether physical, logical, biological, physiological, ecological, phenomenological, psychological, anthropological, sociological, political, philosophical, theological, cosmological, or any such modes in combination.

Established in 1964 by Juri Lotman (initially as Труды по знаковым системам - Σημειωτικη), Sign Systems Studies is the oldest international semiotic periodical. It publishes articles and reviews in English from scholars in many countries, and also accepts papers in Russian. Russian and Estonian language abstracts are included for all artiticles. This peer-reviewed journal has become a central institution in the semiotics of culture.

Versus (or VS, as is often known) is one of the first and best-known international journals of Semiotics, Philosophy and Theory of Language. It was founded in 1971 by Umberto Eco, who has been the director of the journal until his death in February 2016. Versus is currently directed by Patrizia Violi.

Signs and Society is an open access, multidisciplinary journal in the humanities and social sciences focusing on research that examines the role of sign processes (or semiosis) in social interaction, cognition, and cultural formations. Focusing directly on semiosis in its multiple dimensions, the journal aims to promote collaborative translation across analytical categories and technical vocabularies already established in anthropology, linguistics, semiotics, and related disciplines, and to uncover unanticipated parallels in the ways semiosis is manifest in diverse empirical domains.

Punctum. is a blind peer-reviewed, on-line journal dedicated to the semiotic study of contemporary cultural texts, practices and processes, published by the Hellenic Semiotic Society, member of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS).

Visual Communication frames the study of the visual as a fundamental aspect of communication in order to understand the place of the visual in a broader social and cultural context. The journal addresses the role of the visual in relation to other semiotic resources, to communication in general, and to questions of meaning. The journal invites contributions on the nature of contemporary, historical, and future semiotic landscapes - through theory, empirical analysis, practice, and/or critique.

Social Semiotics is a peer reviewed journal that publishes high quality papers that deal with the study of semiotic resources and practices including words, images, behaviours, settings, sounds, design, etc., and the way these are connected to the organization of societies and everyday lives.

VISIO, Revue internationale de sémiotique visuelle is the official journal of the International Association for Visual Semiotics, founded in Québec in 1996, which publishes four thematic issues annually—accepting peer-reviewed articles in French, English, and Spanish—organized by guest editors and supported by an international editorial and honorary committee

Signata aims to collect, organize, and put to the test the approaches that drive current semiotic research. The journal does not favor any particular theory, school, or object of study: Its goal is to nurture semiotics as a disciplinary project. The journal aims on the one hand to identify the main issues currently explored by the language sciences and, on the other, to structure lines of internationally recognized semiotic research.