The American Journal of Semiotics was established in 1981 as
the official journal of the Semiotic Society of America (Wikipedia, The
American Journal of Semiotics). The
journal publishes essays, as well as reviews of works, dealing with
semiotics. It is an international
journal, and is published quarterly. The
journal’s editorial board consists of professors from mostly American
universities, including Purdue, Pennsylvania State University, Indiana
University, and the University of California-Berkeley.
The journal considers itself multidisciplinary, as is
evident in the nature of the field itself. Its goal is to explore the nature of
communication and meaning. Defined on
the back of the title page of the journal, semiotics is the study of “signs and
sign systems in order to describe, analyze, and interpret
the full range of communication and culture experienced as discourse codes.”
The discipline explores culture experienced as different codes of discourse,
this may include works of consumer goods, art, events, and social norms, as
well as texts. The field of semiotics allows a
student or researcher in anthropology to explore these different events and objects as cultural
codes that work to communicating explicit and implicit messages and are part of
cultural experience.
Articles in The American Journal of Semiotics range from
topics on phenomenology, rhetoric, and visual art analyses, as well as articles
written on theorists such as Lacan, Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, and Foucault.
The American Journal of Semiotics is available both online,
through the Kent State Library, and in print at the Kent Main library up until
2000.
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