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Instances of modern humor increasingly exist as multimodal signs, which is most evident in the recent new format of digital memes, image macros, funny videos, and other forms of humor widely circulated on social media and online. However, the meaning-potential of humor – whatever traditional or modern forms it takes – is inseparably linked to the social context, which not only provides the background for the un/successful deployment of humor but also ends up being shaped by the humor used. From a semiotic perspective, humor involves both the handling of complex socially embedded and publicly shared meanings as well as individualized personal motivations that underlie the interlocutors’ intentions and the eventual communicative effects.

Special issue of Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics 10:1 (2024)

6-10 September 2022, Sozopol, Bulgaria

deadline for the proposals: 20 July 2022

New publication: Semiotic Approaches to Urban Space: Signs and Cities, edited by Federico Bellentani, University of Turin, Italy, Mario Panico, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Lia Yoka, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

13th International Conference on Semiotics: Semiotics Across and In-Between Athens, Panteion University (28-30.9.2023)

4th Seminar and Symposium of the Academy of Cultural Heritages at  Ermoupolis, Syros island (Cyclades) , Greece on May, 10-13, 2023; chair Prof. Eero Tarasti; assistants Lazaros Papoutsis (Florina, Greece) Aleksi Haukka  and Paul Forsell (Helsinki)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SEMIOSIS IN COMMUNICATION

New Challenges of Multimodality in the Digital Age

Bucharest, June 22-24, 2023

Punctum 8 (1):  Semiotic Approaches to Big Data Visualization