List, I am forwarding this note from Torkild Thellefsen's Facebook blog.
Best, Gary Dear friends this is a call for paper from me *smile emoticon* Umberto Eco in his Own Words A volume edited by Torkild Thellefsen and Bent Sørensen to appear in the series Semiotics, Communication and Cognition (De Gruyter Mouton) In 2017 Umberto Eco the Italian semiotician, literary critic, philosopher, novelist, and essayist, will turn 85 years.Umberto Eco in his Own Words will celebrate this extraordinary, prolific thinker and the relevance of his idea for semiotics, communication, and cognitive studies. More importantly, however, it will provide a major statement of the current status of Eco’s work within semiotics. Umberto Eco in his Own Words will consist of short articles from Eco scholars all taking as their starting point a quote from Eco that they have chosen as being particularly illustrative of the issues that his work raises. In order to structure these articles we use the keywords (semiotics, communication, cognition) of this series as guidelines. Every article must address one or more of these keywords. The volume will be a contribution to both semiotics and Eco studies. Hitherto, there has been no book which attempted to sum up the breadth of Eco’s work and it importance for the study of semiotics, communication and cognition. There have been anthologies and overviews of Eco’s work within Eco Studies; sometimes, works in semiotics have used aspects of Eco’s work. Yet, thus far, there has been no overview of the work of Eco in the breadth of semiotics. The exact ordering of the contributions will be settled once the contributions have been received. In that way, as editors we will be able to more accurately identify synergies, continuities and correspondences in the sequence of contributions. The reason to choose the quote form is that the quote represents central and/or productive thoughts in Eco’s oeuvre. In this way the quote becomes a metonymy, an index of the given text the quote stems from. Because the writers all are Eco scholars, we assume that their selected quotes must be central to Eco. This volume will bring together insights across the wide range of Eco’s writings, as well as the contemporary trends in his interpretation, including the innovative applications of Eco’s semiotic models. Due to its innovative format and the wide scope of contributors, the volume will potentially attract much wider audience than any common treatise about Eco. We have used the format regarding Charles Sanders Peirce in his Own Words – 100 years of semiotics, communication and cognition for more information see: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/255019… <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.degruyter.com%2Fview%2Fproduct%2F255019%3Frskey%3Dm4x86e%26result%3D1&h=gAQF873EbAQEKh7jV0Fj14cHrjNX6WgVKQl_xxQeCDk9ypA&enc=AZNAGoZV-yCOT4BhdrVVDSd4C2cFrFBtXA19hCtTjpTdBrCiiMJjnRKCJnEZ_jPMuWj8RlHWDEYpWXtd88VI7PHX4eOmQS5R_Nrm6bpreYI2QK7YgBLHOOt2YlfxUhfYDFSIgae3pfOZ0Gh2P1II46MH-88fbHQy8tkLYPiN5jYOng&s=1> Additional information -Deadline for submission is november 1, 2015. -All papers will be peer reviewed -The paper must not exceed 3000 words excl. references -Keep footnotes to a minimum Please share *smile emoticon* [image: Gary Richmond] *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* *C 745* *718 482-5690*
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