International Conference From Observation to Text, from Text to Culture

International Conference From Observation to Text, from Text to CultureTwo
Paths of Semiotics?Tallinn University (Estonia), 7-8 may, 2010.How to
define semiotics? Which practices delimit its knowledge? The first answer
is that semiotics has to do with texts and with the different forms of
inscriptions of meaning (written, graphical, figurative, oral, etc.)
resulting from the manufacture of texts. By tradition, semiotics is
actually associated with texts and their analyses. As a matter of fact, its
range is larger than it appears to be at first sight, and its
(meta)knowledge, above all in a modern perspective, can be compared with a
sociology and an anthropology that takes into account the direct
observation of human beings in society and culture. During this conference,
we intend to reflect on this (meta)knowledge of semiotics and on its
analytical instruments by following two complementary directions: (I) from
individual observation to text and (II) and from text to
culture.Organisation:Estonian Institute of Humanities (EHI) and the
Germanic-Romance Languages and Culture Institute of Tallinn University. In
collaboration with the University of Liège.Read more about the conference.