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Papers

(The median citation count of Semiotica is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Deployment of gestures in the semiotic construction of scientific knowledge: a systemic functional approach to pedagogic semiosis	10
Semiotics of humor in Nigerian politics	9
Tropes and play: a new account on embodied figures of thought	9
Gastrofonia: a new cultural horizon of music and food	8
Funktionskreis, Gestaltkreis, and Situationskreis in the context of integrated medicine	8
Ritualism and disempowerment of education: social semiotics of the educational experience of young Iranian girls	7
Studying values about childhood using networked photography on Instagram	7
Origins of money: a Motivation & Sedimentation Model (MSM) analysis	6
Conflicting modalities in feature film: from contrapuntal editing to internal diegetic sound	6
On the recognitions of asemic poetry as language	6
The lifeworld and the world of life: the concept of relevance and its foundation in organic nature	6
Exploring deceptions: cognitive strategies and dynamics in espionage	6
Typologie des implicites ethnosocioculturels en discours	5
Les IA génératives visuelles entre perception d’archives et circuits de composition	5
Off the pitch: semiotics of liminality between space and play	5
The role of natural disasters in the semiotic transformations of culture: the case of the volcanic eruptions of Mt. Merapi, Indonesia	5
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Surinterprétation idiomatique en sémiotique de la traduction :De la part de la princesse mortede Kenizé Mourad et ses traductions turques	4
Fencing blindfolded: extending meaning through sound, floor, and blade	4
Intersemiotic projection and academic comics: towards a social semiotic framework of multimodal paratactic and hypotactic projection	4
Eco, Riffaterre, and a poem by Baudelaire	4
Transhumanism: the friendly face of the overhuman and the comic book Superman	4
Behavioral capital: gaming and monetization in post-marxist perspective	4
Peirce’s evolving interpretants	4
Missed encounters: what may be relevant for an AI is not for a human being	4

A semiotic analysis of multiple systems of logic: using tagmemic theory to assess the usefulness and limitations of formal logics, and to produce a mathematical lattice model including multiple system	4
Pour une reconnaissance des signes éthiques : les formes de l’ethos et ses implications sociologiques	3
The semiotics of social-distance branding during the post-coronavirus crisis	3
« Référence » et « référent », un essai de mise au point	3
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La marque comme service ayant une vision propre : une approche sémiotique des architectures de marques	3
Mystique, spiritualité, et politiques écologiques: Une lecture de Face à Gaïa (Bruno Latour)	3
Tomás Saraceno: semiotic regimes of posthuman temporalities	3
The impatient gaze: on the phenomenon of scrolling in the age of boredom	3
Être et agir au nom de la foi: le mysticisme et la religion dans des discours de George W. Bush	3
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Aspects of AI semiotics: enunciation, agency, and creativity	3
Du Flâneur au traceur: playful bodies in urban spaces	3
Getting Fra Angelico’s splotch out: rehabilitating visual cognitive semiotics	3
The six types of sign action	3
Complexity of nominal group adjectivization: a self-information approach	3
Analysis of the metaphorical meanings of symbols in Milan Kundera’s novels	3
The three states of mediatization: the case of war mediatization	3
Linguistic and cultural peculiarities of Turkish and Arabic speech etiquette in farewells and greetings	3
Education physique, conduites motrices et sémiose : pour une éducation sémiotrice	3
Victoria Welby’s semiotics, significs and gender: through a modernist lens	3
La sémiotique en 2022 : le bilan de l’année	3
Text-image complementarity and genre in English as foreign language textbooks	2
Lithosemiotics: a telluric semiosis for investigating inorganic life	2
Autocommunication in crib speech and private speech	2
The Imam Reza holy shrine: meaning and ritual – some semiotic comments	2
Semiotic ladder: the schema of producing meanings in narrative	2
Mechanisms of homonym transformations: on Catholic variants of Stalinist discourse in Poland	2
Semiotics of artificial intelligence: enunciative praxis in image analysis and generation	2
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Advertising fragrance through visual and audible information: a multimodal metaphor analysis of perfume commercials	2
A comparative study of multi-modal metaphors in food advertisements	2
ChatGPT and the others: artificial intelligence, social actors, and political communication. A tentative sociosemiotic glance	2
Activist masks in the Latin American social protest	2
Alternative model of the communication process: a theoretical proposal	2
Concept lattice formalisms of Hébert’s “semic analysis” and “analysis by classification”	2
Masked Covid life: a socio-semiotic investigation	2
From Sprachtheorie to semantics and cybernetics: Karl Bühler’s “Pocketbook on practical semantics”	2
Visual frames in promotional video: a semiotic analysis of What is Peppa?	2
Le parcours du mysticisme: des ardeurs affectives à l’état théopathique et l’action politique. Thérèse d’Avila et Jean de la Croix	2
The dialogical semiosis of self-narrative in Burning	2
Representing youth as vulnerable social media users: a social semiotic analysis of the promotional materials from The Social Dilemma	2
Redundancies of traffic signs: an exploratory study	2
The rhetorical dimension of images: identity building and management on social networks	2
Tracing fashion transformations: a comprehensive visual analysis of fashion magazine covers	2
Multimodality in Hong Kong government posters from the 1950s–1980s: an appraisal analysis and the discursive construction of legitimation	2
Exploration des systèmes de signes dans quatre jeux sportifs : analyse comparative du football, du handball, de la balle assise et du jeu des trois camps	2
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Societal stereotypes in representations of disability on postage stamps: a semiotic approach	2
An allegory of Fama and Historia: rumor studies, collective memory, and semiotics	2

A semiotic analysis of images of Saudi Women’s rights in caricatures in light of Saudi Women’s empowerment	2
The challenge of dissecting the frog: cartoonists analyze their creative process	2
The beheading of James Foley: a crossing of gazes between East and West	2
Historical narrative and enrichment of the meaningful horizon of cultural worlds	2
Visual semiotics and digital game spaces: review of the semiotics of architecture in video games	2
Significations et éléments centraux versus périphériques des représentations visuelles	2
Can we really free ourselves from stereotypes? A semiotic point of view on clichés and disability studies	2
Language and radical anthropocentrism: the view from the supercategory	2
A monument’s many faces: the meanings of the face in monuments and memorials	2
Being is said in many ways	2
Beyond “Made in China”: visual rhetoric and cultural functionality in translating the traditional Chinese totem Loong 龙	2
Signe, science et jeux sportif : esquisse de sémiotricité triadique	2
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Performance as discourse: a multimodal perspective on meaning-making in theater	2
Chemical formalisms: toward a semiotic typology	2
The myth of meaning: generative AI as language-endowed machines and the machinic essence of the human being	1
Knowledge in action: what the feet can learn to know	1
TV series and the unveiling of the unknown: a semiology of strangeness	1
Revisiting Greimasian figurativity, and making the notion do more work in semiotics of text	1
From hieroglyphs to emoji: a spiral model for writing systems evolution	1
Quand l’éventail du désaccord laisse parler au-delà des paroles: Etude historico-sémiotique de la légende du Coup de l’Eventail	1
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Linguistic and cultural analysis of the concept “politeness”	1
Sense, reference, and contemporary “predicativism”	1
From grammar to text: a semiotic perspective on a paradigm shift in computation and its usages	1
A bibliometric analysis of studies on multimodal translation: retrospect and prospect	1
The semiotics of motion encoding in Early English: a cognitive semiotic analysis of phrasal verbs in Old and Middle English	1
Gesture, a tool for synthetic reasoning	1
“Little music” or “rough music”?: Ishion Hutchinson, modernist poet	1
Exploring text-image relations in museum contexts: a multimodal analysis of sub-genre variations across interpretive captions	1
Stylistic and semiotic analysis of modern Chinese piano performance	1
Cassirer’s path to the “symbolic animal”	1
Aux abords d’un centre qui toujours se dérobe	1
Watching and feeling ballet: neuroscience and semiotics of bodily movement	1
Cross-modal iconicity in songs about weeping	1
Crowning, rotating, and emanating hierophanies with elevatio aspect in wayside shrines	1
Sémiotique destextscapes: quelle contribution dutextscapelinguistique à la mise en scène des langues dans un corpus de sites web ?	1
Models as signs of the imaginary: Peirce, Pierce, Langer, and the non-discursive sign	1
Assessing the subtitling of emotive reactions: a social semiotic approach	1
Semiology: in the light of Saussure’ words	1
A Peircean framework for analyzing subjectivity in film: a nine-field ocularization matrix	1
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La forme d’existence , un régime sémiotique: acte délictueux et modes de sémiotisation	1
Semiotic and asemiotic practices in boxing	1
From action to performative gesture: the Slapping movement used by children at the age of four to six	1
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La notion de vérité à l’épreuve de l’intelligence artificielle	1
Paratexts and the reframing of a classic: Korean translations of the Japanese Women’s Analects	1
Introduction: semiotricity	1
Languaging dynamics of classroom interactivity: a distributed view of the pedagogic recontextualization in L2 tertiary settings	1
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Pour une approche sémiotique de la traduction de la chanson : l’exemple de La chanson des vieux amants de Jacques Brel et de son adaptation turque Şarap Mevsimi	1
A study in scarlet: cultural memory of the tropes related to the color red, female countenance, and onstage makeup in the Sinophone world	1
Challenging linguicentrism in translation: a semiotic approach to the emergence of a female counterculture in digital spaces	1
The primordiality of representation	1
Lotman’s semiotics of culture in the age of AI: analyzing the cultural dynamics of AI-generated video art in the semiosphere	1
Rethinking lexical semantic fields: relevance and local holism	1
Signs of life: a process philosophy of audible semiotics	1
Spatial pedagogy: exploring semiotic functions of one teacher’s movement in an Active Learning Classroom	1
Logonomic signs as three-phase constraints of multimodal social semiosis	1
Pour une sémiotique d’un discours préfaciel: Le Collier de la colombe de Raja Alem	1
Frames as pre-signal context: using a semiotic framing approach to explain how prior experiences shape present interpretations of control signals	1
Young parkour traceurs in Mexico City: a new way to meaning and identity in urban spaces	1
La machine crée, mais énonce-t-elle? Le computationnel et le digital mis en débat	1
Au nom du monde : À propos du Présage de Pierre Gascar	1
Rationalités correctives et intelligence artificielle assistée : les doubles contraintes des humanités numériques	1
A semiotic model of South Korea’s cultural industry ecosystem: the K-pop industry	1
Sexualized social and dress codes of girl performers in the West	1
On Kant doing philosophy and the Peircean alternative	1
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Sémiotique 2021 : l’année en revue	1
The semiotic roots of worldviews: logic, epistemology, and contemporary comparisons	1
Questionnement sur la dualité: Quelques éléments pour fonder une sémiotique du bouddhisme	1
Mystique et politique de l’amitié : Figure de l’écrilire	1
Semiotricité et corps en jeu	1
Intralingual translation in didactic practice: five case studies	1
Ethnosemantic analysis of binary oppositions in toposystems	1