Versus (journal)
Encyclopedia
Versus: Quaderni di studi semiotici (often abbreviated as VS) is an influential semiotic journal
in Italy
. Founded by Umberto Eco
, et al. in 1971, it has been an important confrontation space for a large number of scholars of several fields coping with signs and signification. Its foundation and activities have contributed to consolidate the perception of semiotics as an academic field in itself both in Italy and in Europe.
Versus has published original articles by most influential European semioticians, including Umberto Eco
, A.J. Greimas, Jean-Marie Floch, Paolo Fabbri
, Jacques Fontanille
, Claude Zilberberg
, Ugo Volli, Patrizia Violi. At the same time, almost every issue also contains articles by younger, less famous semioticians dealing with new research perspectives in semiotics.
Each issue is focused on a specific argument, like iconism, translation and history of sign or on studies regarding a specific author (like Louis Hjelmslev
, Charles Sanders Peirce, Michel Bréal
).
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
. Founded by Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose , an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory...
, et al. in 1971, it has been an important confrontation space for a large number of scholars of several fields coping with signs and signification. Its foundation and activities have contributed to consolidate the perception of semiotics as an academic field in itself both in Italy and in Europe.
Versus has published original articles by most influential European semioticians, including Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose , an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory...
, A.J. Greimas, Jean-Marie Floch, Paolo Fabbri
Paolo Fabbri
Paolo Fabbri is an Italian musicologist and academic. In 1989 he was awarded the Dent Medal. He is best known for his extensive publications on the life and works of Gioachino Rossini, and for a biography of composer Claudio Monteverdi which was first published in the Italian language in Turin in...
, Jacques Fontanille
Jacques Fontanille
Jacques Fontanille is a French semiotician who is one of the main exponents of the Paris School of Semiotics. He has authored or co-authored ten books and a number of articles or book chapters whose topics span theoretical semiotics, literary semiotics, and semiotics of the visual...
, Claude Zilberberg
Claude Zilberberg
Claude Zilberberg, Docteur d'État, was born in France in 1938. He is co-director of the Paris Intersemiotic Seminar.- Actual working :For more than 20 years, Claude Zilberberg has been analysing the effects of applying tensive modelling as an overlay onto the foundation of Greimasian semiotic...
, Ugo Volli, Patrizia Violi. At the same time, almost every issue also contains articles by younger, less famous semioticians dealing with new research perspectives in semiotics.
Each issue is focused on a specific argument, like iconism, translation and history of sign or on studies regarding a specific author (like Louis Hjelmslev
Louis Hjelmslev
Louis Hjelmslev was a Danish linguist whose ideas formed the basis of the Copenhagen School of linguistics. Born into an academic family , Hjelmslev studied comparative linguistics in Copenhagen, Prague and Paris...
, Charles Sanders Peirce, Michel Bréal
Michel Bréal
"Breal" redirects here. For the Rapper see B-RealMichel Jules Alfred Bréal , French philologist, was born at Landau in Rhenish Bavaria. He is often identified as a founder of modern semantics....
).