OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Deployment of gestures in the semiotic construction of scientific knowledge: a systemic functional approach to pedagogic semiosis	10
Tropes and play: a new account on embodied figures of thought	8
Semiotics of humor in Nigerian politics	8
Toward a Peircean logic of meditation	8
Exploring deceptions: cognitive strategies and dynamics in espionage	7
Hotspots for textual dynamics: cultural semiotic approach to digital archives	6
Conflicting modalities in feature film: from contrapuntal editing to internal diegetic sound	6
Gastrofonia: a new cultural horizon of music and food	5
The lifeworld and the world of life: the concept of relevance and its foundation in organic nature	5
Origins of money: a Motivation & Sedimentation Model (MSM) analysis	5
Ritualism and disempowerment of education: social semiotics of the educational experience of young Iranian girls	5
On the recognitions of asemic poetry as language	5
Funktionskreis, Gestaltkreis, and Situationskreis in the context of integrated medicine	5
Studying values about childhood using networked photography on Instagram	5
Off the pitch: semiotics of liminality between space and play	4
Peirce’s evolving interpretants	4
Les IA génératives visuelles entre perception d’archives et circuits de composition	4
The role of natural disasters in the semiotic transformations of culture: the case of the volcanic eruptions of Mt. Merapi, Indonesia	4
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Missed encounters: what may be relevant for an AI is not for a human being	4
Eco, Riffaterre, and a poem by Baudelaire	4
Typologie des implicites ethnosocioculturels en discours	4
Peirce’s vocation for consciousness: an evolutionary account	4
Fencing blindfolded: extending meaning through sound, floor, and blade	4
Surinterprétation idiomatique en sémiotique de la traduction :De la part de la princesse mortede Kenizé Mourad et ses traductions turques	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	3
Pour une reconnaissance des signes éthiques : les formes de l’ethos et ses implications sociologiques	3
The impatient gaze: on the phenomenon of scrolling in the age of boredom	3
Intersemiotic projection and academic comics: towards a social semiotic framework of multimodal paratactic and hypotactic projection	3
Transhumanism: the friendly face of the overhuman and the comic book Superman	3
Review of Conspiracy theories as a form of phatic communication	3
An experimental study on the effect of emotion lines in comics	3
The semiotics of social-distance branding during the post-coronavirus crisis	3
Bühler’s organon model of communication: a semiotic analysis of advertising slogans	3
Analysis of the metaphorical meanings of symbols in Milan Kundera’s novels	3
Behavioral capital: gaming and monetization in post-marxist perspective	3
Être et agir au nom de la foi: le mysticisme et la religion dans des discours de George W. Bush	3
From Sprachtheorie to semantics and cybernetics: Karl Bühler’s “Pocketbook on practical semantics”	2
Performance as discourse: a multimodal perspective on meaning-making in theater	2
Activist masks in the Latin American social protest	2
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Masked Covid life: a socio-semiotic investigation	2
Concept lattice formalisms of Hébert’s “semic analysis” and “analysis by classification”	2
Victoria Welby’s semiotics, significs and gender: through a modernist lens	2
Linguistic and cultural peculiarities of Turkish and Arabic speech etiquette in farewells and greetings	2
Tomás Saraceno: semiotic regimes of posthuman temporalities	2
Mystique, spiritualité, et politiques écologiques: Une lecture de Face à Gaïa (Bruno Latour)	2
Education physique, conduites motrices et sémiose : pour une éducation sémiotrice	2
Being is said in many ways	2
The plastic of clothing and the construction of visual communication and interaction: a semiotic examination of the eighteenth-century French dress	2
An allegory of Fama and Historia: rumor studies, collective memory, and semiotics	2
Chemical formalisms: toward a semiotic typology	2
Aspects of AI semiotics: enunciation, agency, and creativity	2
Du Flâneur au traceur: playful bodies in urban spaces	2
Complexity of nominal group adjectivization: a self-information approach	2
La sémiotique en 2022 : le bilan de l’année	2
Getting Fra Angelico’s splotch out: rehabilitating visual cognitive semiotics	2
Text-image complementarity and genre in English as foreign language textbooks	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
Societal stereotypes in representations of disability on postage stamps: a semiotic approach	2
Visual frames in promotional video: a semiotic analysis of What is Peppa?	2
A semiotic analysis of images of Saudi Women’s rights in caricatures in light of Saudi Women’s empowerment	2
La marque comme service ayant une vision propre : une approche sémiotique des architectures de marques	2
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The six types of sign action	2
The myth of meaning: generative AI as language-endowed machines and the machinic essence of the human being	1
Au nom du monde : À propos du Présage de Pierre Gascar	1
Representing youth as vulnerable social media users: a social semiotic analysis of the promotional materials from The Social Dilemma	1
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Redundancies of traffic signs: an exploratory study	1
Intralingual translation in didactic practice: five case studies	1
The dialogical semiosis of self-narrative in Burning	1
Quand l’éventail du désaccord laisse parler au-delà des paroles: Etude historico-sémiotique de la légende du Coup de l’Eventail	1

The primordiality of representation	1
Rethinking lexical semantic fields: relevance and local holism	1
The semiotic roots of worldviews: logic, epistemology, and contemporary comparisons	1
Alternative model of the communication process: a theoretical proposal	1
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Practical Esotericism and Tikkun Olam: two modern renditions of a medieval mystical idea	1
Le parcours du mysticisme: des ardeurs affectives à l’état théopathique et l’action politique. Thérèse d’Avila et Jean de la Croix	1
Semiotics in visual communication: review of Doing Visual Analysis	1
Tracing fashion transformations: a comprehensive visual analysis of fashion magazine covers	1
Autocommunication in crib speech and private speech	1
Sémiotique destextscapes: quelle contribution dutextscapelinguistique à la mise en scène des langues dans un corpus de sites web ?	1
A semiotic model of South Korea’s cultural industry ecosystem: the K-pop industry	1
“Little music” or “rough music”?: Ishion Hutchinson, modernist poet	1
Gesture, a tool for synthetic reasoning	1
Can we really free ourselves from stereotypes? A semiotic point of view on clichés and disability studies	1
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Sense, reference, and contemporary “predicativism”	1
The rhetorical dimension of images: identity building and management on social networks	1
Consciousness and mind in Peirce: distinctions and complementarities	1
Mechanisms of homonym transformations: on Catholic variants of Stalinist discourse in Poland	1
A bibliometric analysis of studies on multimodal translation: retrospect and prospect	1
Mystique et politique de l’amitié : Figure de l’écrilire	1
Significations et éléments centraux versus périphériques des représentations visuelles	1
Aux abords d’un centre qui toujours se dérobe	1
Beyond “Made in China”: visual rhetoric and cultural functionality in translating the traditional Chinese totem Loong 龙	1
Assessing the subtitling of emotive reactions: a social semiotic approach	1
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Historical narrative and enrichment of the meaningful horizon of cultural worlds	1
The beheading of James Foley: a crossing of gazes between East and West	1
Signe, science et jeux sportif : esquisse de sémiotricité triadique	1
Semiotic ladder: the schema of producing meanings in narrative	1
Cross-modal iconicity in songs about weeping	1
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On the blankness of blank-signs	1
On Kant doing philosophy and the Peircean alternative	1
Young parkour traceurs in Mexico City: a new way to meaning and identity in urban spaces	1
Language and radical anthropocentrism: the view from the supercategory	1
Frames as pre-signal context: using a semiotic framing approach to explain how prior experiences shape present interpretations of control signals	1
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Semiotics of artificial intelligence: enunciative praxis in image analysis and generation	1
Spatial pedagogy: exploring semiotic functions of one teacher’s movement in an Active Learning Classroom	1
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Introduction: semiotricity	1
A. J. Greimas in the world: travels, translations, transmissions	1
Advertising fragrance through visual and audible information: a multimodal metaphor analysis of perfume commercials	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
Visual semiotics and digital game spaces: review of the semiotics of architecture in video games	1
Semiotic analysis of symbolic logic using tagmemic theory: with implications for analytic philosophy	1
ChatGPT and the others: artificial intelligence, social actors, and political communication. A tentative sociosemiotic glance	1
Multimodality in Hong Kong government posters from the 1950s–1980s: an appraisal analysis and the discursive construction of legitimation	1
The challenge of dissecting the frog: cartoonists analyze their creative process	1
A comparative study of multi-modal metaphors in food advertisements	1
A monument’s many faces: the meanings of the face in monuments and memorials	1
Semiotic and asemiotic practices in boxing	1