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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🎨 When does "inspiration" become a rip-off? For illustrators, a visual style comes from years of work and is deeply connected to who they are. For branding agencies, it can look like an aesthetic resource for reuse. What happens when these ways of seeing collide? 🧵1/7

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🥋What does a pineapple have to do with Brazilian jiujitsu? Quite a lot...! If you are a "bolo-player." Meet Dr. Jay Ke-Schutte's new article that follows how a once-messy "scramble" became a recognizable style of movement--and an icon of personhood. 🧵1/7

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🆕New Article Alert! What do wine tasting and identifying animal scat have in common? 🍷💩 Quite a lot, it turns out! Dr. Xiao Schutte Ke examines how Tibetan community experts and Han-Chinese conservation scientists learn to see and identify wildlife scat together. 🧵1/6

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🆕New Article Out! Was José Rizal (the Philippine national hero, celebrated intellectual, and polygot) the "original conyo"? 🇵🇭 Read Dr. Angela Reyes' article, which examines why people today imagine Rizal as the origin of a contemporary elite way of speaking. 🧵1/6

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🆕New Article Alert!! How would you describe the sound of a violin? 🎻 What if you and your violin crafter hear it *differently*? Read Dr. Juliet Glazer's new article on how we communicate about sounds that are notoriously difficult to describe! 🧵1/5

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🆕New Issue Alert! 👉Signs and Society 14-3 is now live!👈 🔗DIVE IN: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🆕New article alert! Read Zhuoli Gao @jenigzl.bsky.social on how street dancers learn to freestyle and how teachers transmit bodily sensations that can be difficult to put into words🕺 💃What kind of training makes improvisation look and feel spontaneous? 🧵1/5

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

🎊New Issue Alert! Signs and Society 14-2 is now live! 🔖 ➡️Localizing Hallyu: The Semiotics of the Korean Wave in Media and Discourse 🤿DIVE IN: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🆕New Article Out! What do the sights, smells, and sounds of a butcher shop reveal about religion, caste, and urban politics? Read the article by Dr. Shaheed Tayob on how everyday meat exchanges become a site where halal practice, caste, and Hindu Nationalism intersect. 🧵1/6

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🆕New Article Alert! Why did the Oxford English Dictionary's addition of Korean words become global news? 🌏 Dr. Elaine Chun examines what the OED's Korean entries reveal not only about Korea's global visibility but also about who counts as an "ideal speaker" of English. 🧵1/6

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

🆕New Article Out! What if climate change denial is not simply *ignorance* but a political and poetic form of positioning? Read this article by Dr. Jonna Yarrington on the semiotics of denial on Tangier Island, a disappearing island in the Chesapeake Bay. 🧵1/5

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🆕New Article Out! How does creativity actually happen in social life? 🎭 In this article, Dr. Keith Sawyer explores how improvisation from theater to everyday interaction generates social structures, meanings, and even culture itself. 🧵1/5

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

🆕New Article Alert! How do people collaborate across entirely different professional worlds?🌳🩰 Read Drs. Ingram & Wallace's article on how choreographers and arborists co-create meaning, transforming everyday forestry work into dance through embodied interaction. 🧵1/5

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

🗞️New Article Out! What does justice look like in interaction? 👀 Read Dr. Gregory Matoesian's article on how jurors co-construct justice in real-time through gesture, laughter, and embodied conduct. 🧵1/5

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

🆕New Article Out! What happens when meaning must be made in a moment of touch? 👏 Dr. Sarah Hillewaert shows how improvisation emerges through embodied interaction from rock climbing to greeting gestures, where signs must be interpreted under uncertainty and time pressure. 🧵1/4

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

✅ New Firstview Article! What does it mean to call something "Koreaish"? Read Dr. Ayumi Inouchi's new article that examines how young Japanese women experience "Korea" as a sensuous aesthetic felt through makeup, hairstyles, photography, and everyday embodied practice. 🧵1/4

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

🆕New Article Alert🆕 What happens when K-pop fandom meets electoral politics? Read Drs. Christian Go @sociolinggo.bsky.social and Leif Garinto's new article on how Filipino K-pop fans mobilized lyrics, imagery, and fancams in the 2022 elections to craft vehicles for political expression. 🧵1/4

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

🎊New Issue Alert!🎊 Signs and Society 13:4 is now live! 🕶️Dive in: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🎊New Article Available!🎊 What can "songs" tell us about gender, time, and Indigenous resilience? In "Songs to Soothe a Mother," Dr. Maxwell Yamane examines how "Kiowa War Mother songs" created during World War II carry gendered histories across generations. 🧵 1/4

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

🆕New Article!🆕 Remember the trend of the Paleo diet and barefoot running? Have you ever wondered whether there was more to it than recipes and running rituals? If so, SAS suggests reading our latest article by Dr. Elise Kramer, “The Caveman in the Mirror”! 🧵 1/4

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🆕 New Article Alert! ✨ Have you heard of the Danish concept of hygge, often translated as “coziness”? ✨ Check out Dr. Rebecca Journey’s (@beccajourney.bsky.social) new article, “A Semiotics of Coziness and Disappearing Night”! 🧵 1/5

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

🆕 New Article! Check out Dr. Catherine Tebaldi’s (@cat-tebaldi.bsky.social) new article on "tradwives," who are social media influencers who promote an idealized, "feminine" womanhood by staging nostalgic chronotopes of tradition, from 1850s homesteads to 1950s suburban homes. 🧵1/3

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🆕New Article Check out Dr. KD Thompson's @katrinadalythompson.com new article examining ✨nearly a century of Swahili-language Islamic marital booklets✨ 🧵 1/4

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🎊New Issue Available! 🎊 Signs and Society 13:3 is now live! 📘 The Translation Machine: Infrastructures of Valorization under Semiocapitalism 🧵 1/2

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

🆕 JUST PUBLISHED! Check an introductory article for the upcoming (soon!) special issue “The Translation Machine: Infrastructures of Valorization under Semiocapitalism" written by Dr. Aurora Donzelli. 🧵 1/3

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

NEW PUB by 2024-25 CASBS fellow Matthew Hull in Signs and Society, "Capitalism and the Semiotics of Corporate Personhood in a Law of Human Persons" Matt wrote the paper at CASBS 😏 ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

🚨 New Article Alert! 🚨 Check out Dr. Matthew Hull’s latest article on the semiotics of corporate personhood—how signs construct corporations as “legal persons.” 💼 🧵1/2

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

🚨New FirstView Article Alert!🚨 Check out SAS's latest article by Drs. Alfonso Del Percio and Cécile Vigouroux, examining how translation practices render unhoused individuals into quantifiable data 📊 🧵1/3

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

🎉New Issue Available!🎉 Signs and Society 13:2 is now LIVE! 🙌 Dive into a wide-ranging collection of new articles, spanning topics from Fanfa bands to Artificial Intelligence! LINK: bit.ly/41jDFD0

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

🚨New Article Alert!🚨 Add Dr. Sabina Perrino’s @sabyperri.bsky.social latest article on translating “Made-in-Italy” to your 🌞summer reading list🌞! 🧵1/3 LINK: doi.org/10.1017/sas....

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🚨New Article Alert!🚨 "I can understand how frustrating the situation is." We've all heard phrases like this from call centers--but what makes them work? 📞 🧵1/3

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

🔎 Zooming into our most recent issue! Read Dr. Anna Weichselbraun's @annaw.bsky.social article on "nuclear nonproliferation," where she explains what happens to nuclear verification when efforts to make nuclear materials more transparent fail. LINK: doi.org/10.1017/sas....

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🔎 Zooming into our most recent issue! In our latest issue on "semiotic indeterminacy," Drs. Wolfgram and Larson explore the internship🧑‍💼, where they closely examine two life history narratives of interns to analyze the "semiotic ambiguity" of participant roles arising in the internship economy. 🧵1/2

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🔎 Zooming into our most recent issue! In our 🎈latest issue🎈 on "semiotic indeterminacy," Dr. Bonnie Urciuoli introduces a concept of “strategically deployable shifters” (SDS). 🧵1/3

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

🔎 Zooming into our most recent issue! Check out the article in our 🎈latest issue 🎈 on "semiotic indeeterminacy" by Dr. Ilana Gershon (structureless.bsky.social)! 🧵1/3

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🎉New Issue Available! Signs and Society 13:1 is now live! This special issue, guest edited by Dr. Ilana Gershon (@structureless.bsky.social), explores the theme of "political uses of semiotic indeterminacy."

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🔖 About Signs and Society... "How Signs and Society Came All About" Dr. Richard Parmentier explains the history of the collaborative relationship between the Semiosis Research Center at HUFS (South Korea) and Brandeis University (USA) in publishing Signs and Society. 🧵1/4

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

💡About Signs and Society… Signs and Society is an open-access, interdisciplinary journal on "semiosis" in social interaction, cognition, and cultural formations. We invite innovative and collaborative works that examine how semiosis unfolds across diverse domains. 🧵 1/3

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

🎉 Signs and Society is now on Bluesky! 🎉 Signs and Society is an open-access, multidisciplinary journal exploring how sign processes (semiosis) shape social interaction, cognition, and culture.

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