http://semiotica.uni.lodz.pl/
UNIVERSITY OF ŁÓDŹ
Semiotica 2015 – INTERNATIONAL SEMIOTIC CONFERENCE
GUEST OF HONOUR
PROF. UMBERTO ECO
UNIVERSITY OF ŁÓDŹ
FACULTY OF PHILOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN STUDIES, INSTITUTE OF ROMANCE STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF PRAGMATICS, INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES
INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER OF HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA DI VARSAVIA
24-27 MAY 2015
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
Embassy of Italy in Poland
President of the University of Łódź
Faculty of Philology, University of Łódź
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Varsavia
Centro Internazionale di Scienze Semiotiche
Polish Pragmatics Association
Polish Semiotic Association
Linguistics Committee, Polish Academy of Sciences, Łódź
Committee of Slavic Onomastics, c/o International Slavic Committee
CONFERENCE VENUE
Faculty of Philology
University of Łódź
Pomorska 171/173
90-236 Łódź
Conference Center
of the University of Łódź
Kopcińskiego 16/18
90-232 Łódź
ORGANIZERS
Department of Italian Studies, University of Lodz
www.italianistyka.uni.lodz.pl
Department of Pragmatics, University of Lodz
anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/ZPJ?department
Interdisciplinary Center of Humanistic Sciences
centrumhumanistyczne.uni.lodz.pl
CO-ORGANIZER
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Varsavia
www.iicvarsavia.esteri.it
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Prof. Dr. Artur Gałkowski, Prof. Dr. Piotr Cap, Prof. Dr. Krystyna Pietrych, Dr. Paola
Ciccolella (Conference Co-Chairs)
Dr. Monika Kopytowska, Dr. Joanna Ciesielka, Dr. Tamara Roszak, Ms. Joanna Ozimska,
Dr. Sebastian Zacharow (Conference Secretaries)
Prof. Dr. Jadwiga Czerwińska, Prof. Dr. Tomasz Cieślak, Dr. Anna Miller-Klejsa,
Ms. Aleksandra Sowińska, Ms. Diana Dąbrowska, dott. Ilario Cola, dott. Stefano Cavallo
(Conference Team)
CONFERENCE SCOPE AND THEMES
„The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it,
and it doesn’t always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the
impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea. The idea is a sign of
things, and the image is a sign of the idea, the sign of a sign. But from the image I
reconstruct, if not the body, the idea that others had of it.”
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
A sign is what we perceive and realize. It comprises a whole range of phenomena, objects, and beings,
as well as ideas within our mental maps. Each fragment of material and immaterial reality perceived by
our mind and senses has to be processed by human thought, which becomes the first and most basic
tool we use to harness knowledge expressed by various types of signs. It is thus not a truism to say
that, seen from this perspective, human thought is boundless. Can it, however, encompass the totality
of the world? Individually, it certainly cannot; socially and historically, depending on the accessibility of
the surrounding world – both real and fictional – and depending on the language used to assign
meanings to things once they are perceived, it can strive to reach the limits of its potential. And here is
where a word comes into play. Being a sign itself, it can be used to indicate, describe and conceptualize
a selected fragment of any material, spiritual, or imagined space. A sign and an idea give life to words.
Is the reverse process possible? There are spheres where words, as parts of larger structures, describe
and create the world. They are endowed with agency and performative potential. Merged with a sign by
the thought, a word creates meaning for both the creator herself and the addressee. The “matter” of
the word is thus constituted by acts of speaking and acts of encoding its meaning in writing. What
emerges as a result of these two processes is work, the totality of what is communicated. Understood
in this way, the work can be situated within the frames of various discourses, within the sphere of both
everyday or specialized communication, and, last but not least, within the realm of literature. Hence, it
should be viewed in the widest perspective possible, allowing for new interpretations and
understandings.
Such a multidimensional perspective will be encouraged, explored and implemented in conference
presentations and discussions on the dynamic nature of and relationships between four interrelated
concepts: sign, thought, word, and work. The notions which are at the core of both domain-oriented
and interdisciplinary semiotic research will become the focus of academic investigations and critical
reflections in which we invite all those who are interested in semiotics to engage: linguists
concentrating on the theory of language and its social function, philosophers, literary scholars and
critics, translators rendering the work in another language, and humanists open to knowledge about
the world and the signs present in it.
MAIN THEMES
- semiotics of communication and culture
- cognitive semiotics
- semiotics of art.
- literary semiotics
- media and film semiotics
- semiotics of advertising
- forms and functions of signs
- signs in discourse
- sign aesthetics
- words and signs
- from thoughts to signs and works
- pragmatic perspective on sign/word/work
- semiotics of lexis
- semiotics of onymy
- semiotics of visual design
- rhetoric of sign-oriented discourse
- defining literary, artistic and applied works
- text typology
- semiotic strategy and stylistic convention of text/work
- intentio operis, intentio auctoris and intentio lectoris in text reading and interpretation
- palimpsest story: the role of history in literary work
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Prof. Patrizia Bertini Malgarini, Libera Università Maria Ss. Assunta LUMSA, Italy
Prof. Ingeborga Beszterda, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Prof. Orazio Antonio Bologna, Università Pontificia Salesiana, Italy
Prof. Paolo Bosisio, Università Statale di Milano, Italy
Prof. Piotr Cap, University of Łódź, Poland
Prof. Paul Chilton, Lancaster University, UK
Prof. Tomasz Cieślak, University of Łódź, Poland
Prof. Aleksandra Cieślikowa, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Prof. Jadwiga Czerwińska, University of Łódź, Poland
Prof. Paolo D’Achille, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy
Prof. Paolo Fabbri, Libera Università Internazionale di Studi Sociali LUISS, Centro Internazionale di
Scienze Semiotiche CiSS dell'Università di Urbino, Italy
Prof. Mieczysław Gajos, University of Łódź, Poland
Prof. Artur Gałkowski, University of Łódź, Poland
Prof. Giovanni Gobber, Università del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Prof. Jean-Pierre Goudaillier, Université René Descartes Paris 5 Nouvelle Sorbonne, France
Prof. Bob Hodge, University of Western Sidney, Australia
Prof. Elżbieta Jamrozik, University of Warsaw, Poland
Prof. Alicja Kacprzak, University of Łódź, Poland
Prof. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, University of Łódź, Poland
Prof. Mirosław Loba, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Prof. Justyna Łukaszewicz, University of Wrocław, Poland
Prof. Jadwiga Miszalska, Jagiellonian University, Poland Prof. Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska, University of Warsaw, Poland
Prof. Jerzy Pelc, University of Warsaw, Poland
Prof. Krystyna Pietrych, University of Łódź, Poland
Prof. Steven Pinker, Harvard University, USA
Prof. Jarosław Płuciennik, University of Łódź, Poland
Prof. Paolo Poccetti, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Prof. Piotr Salwa, University of Warsaw, Poland; Polish Academy of Sciences in Rome
Prof. John R. Searle, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Prof. Hanna Serkowska, University of Warsaw, Poland
Prof. Tadeusz Sławek, University of Silesia, Poland
Dr Marcin Sobieszczański, Université de Nice – Sophia Antipolis, France
Prof. Roman Sosnowski, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Prof. Piotr Stalmaszczyk, University of Łódź, Poland
Prof. Rudolf Šrámek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Prof. Ugo Vignuzzi, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Prof. Maria Patrizia Violi, Università di Bologna, Italy
Prof. Ugo Volli, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Prof. Stanisław Widłak, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Prof. Monika Woźniak, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Prof. Krzysztof Żaboklicki, University of Warsaw, Poland
CONFERENCE LANGUAGES
English, Italian, French, Polish
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