Bridging Linguistic Anthropology and Paris-School Semiotics

This year-long plus seminar and workshop series — organized by Constantine V. Nakassis (University of Chicago), Tatsuma Padoan (University College Cork), and Maria Giulia Dondero (FNRS, University of Liège) and sponsored by the Paris Center of the University of Chicago — built a series of a bridges between the semiotic traditions of North American linguistic anthropology and European “Paris School” Semiotics. While each tradition has developed out of sustained critical engagement with linguistic structuralism, exploring issues surrounding the actual and virtual actness of discourse, these two schools have been in almost no contact with each other in the well over half-a-century in which they have been developed. To bridge this gap, this project brought together N. American and European linguistic anthropologists with prominent European semioticians to translate between our traditions. This involved a series of online reading seminars where we read canonical works in each tradition, as well as works that overlapped with members’ own empirical projects, and discussed these readings together in a seminar format. Creating a foundation then led into a series of in-person intensive workshops in Paris and Turin where we discussed works-in-progress by the groups’ members that were inspired by and engaged with these conversations of the working group. The papers are currently being edited by Nakassis and Padoan for publication in a special issue of the journal Semiotic Review, “Dialogues between Linguistic Anthropology and Continental Semiotics.”

Core group members: Felix Danos, Maria Giulia Dondero, Aurora Donzelli, Mariem Guellouz, Bertrand Masquelier, Alvise Mattozi, Urmila Nair, Constantine V. Nakassis, Tatsuma Padoan, Franciscu Sedda.

 

Schedule, Spring 2023

Session 1: Enunciation, 1 (April 14, 2023, 9–1030am CST, 1GMT, 4–530pm CET)

• Fontanille, Jacques. 1989. Les espaces subjectif, Preface and Première Partie (chapter 1). Paris: Hachette. (English translation draft, by Eleonore Rimbault, here.)

Background/classics:

• Greimas, Algirdas J. and Joseph Courtés. 1982. Semiotics and Language: An Analytical Dictionary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (entries on “Enunciation”, “Engagement”, “Disengagement”, “Discourse”, “Illocution”, “Communication”).
• Benveniste, Émile. 1970 [2014]. “The Formal Apparatus of Enunciation.” In J. Angermuller, D. Maingueneau and R. Wodak, eds. The Discourse Studies Reader: Main Currents in Theory and Analysis. John Benjamins, pp. 141–45.
• Benveniste, Émile. 1956[1971]. “The Nature of Pronouns” (pp. 217–22). In Problems in General Linguistics. Univ. of Miami Press.
• Benveniste, Emile. 1958[1971]. “Subjectivity in Language” (pp. 223–30). Problems in General Linguistics. Univ. of Miami Press.
• Benveniste, É., “Coup d’oeil sur le développement de la linguistique”, in Problèmes de linguistique generale I; Eng. trans. “A Look at the Development of Linguistics”, in Problems in General Linguistics I.
• Jakobson, Roman. 1957 [1984]. “Shifters, Verbal Categories, and the Russian Verb” (pp. 41–58). In L. Waugh and M. Halle, eds. Russian and Slavic Grammar: Studies, 1931–1981. Mouton.

Session 2: Enunciation, 2 (April 21, 2023, 9–1030am CST, GMT, 4–530pm CET)

• Bertrand, Denis. 2000. Précis de sémiotique littéraire. Paris: Édition Nathan HER, ch. 3. (English translation draft, by Tatsuma Padoan, here.)
• Thurlemann, Felix. 1989. “Fictionality in Mantegna’s San Zeno Altarpiece Structures of Mimesis and the History of Painting”. New Literary History, Vol. 20, No. 3, special issue on “Greimassian Semiotics”: 747–76.

Further readings:

• Padoan, Tatsuma. 2021. “Pilgrimage and Spirit Possession: Reconnecting Senses, Discourse and Subjectivity on Mt Kiso Ontake”. Irish Journal of Asian Studies, 7, pp. 39-57.
• Nakassis, Constantine. 2020. “Deixis and the Linguistic Anthropology of Cinema.” Semiotic Review 9, special issue on “Images” (Meghanne Barker and C. Nakassis, eds.).
• Floch, Jean-Marie. 2000. Visual Identities. London and New York: Continuum, chh. 1, 5.
• Marin, Louis. 2001. “Critical remarks on enunciation: The question of the present in discourse.” In his On Representation. Stanford: Stanford UP, ch. 8.
• Fontanille, Jacques. 2017. “Praxis and enunciation.” Sign Systems Studies 45(1–2): 54–69.

Session 3: Indexicality and Entextualization (April 28, 2023, 9–1030am CST, 4–530pm CET)

• Silverstein, Michael and Greg Urban. 1996. “The Natural History of Discourse” (pp. 1–17). In M. Silverstein and G. Urban, eds. Natural Histories of Discourse. University of Chicago Press.
• Silverstein, Michael. 2022. Language in Culture: Lectures on the Social Semiotics of Language, Introduction, Lecture 1. Cambridge University Press.
• Bauman, Richard. 1996. “Transformations of the Word in the Production of Mexican Festival Drama” (pp. 301–27). In M. Silverstein and G. Urban, eds. Natural Histories of Discourse. University of Chicago Press.

Background/classics:

• Jakobson, Roman. 1958[1960]. “Closing Statement: Linguistics and Poetics” (pp. 350–77). In T. Sebeok, ed. Style in Language. MIT Press.
• Silverstein, Michael. 1976. “Shifters, Linguistic Categories, and Cultural Description” (pp. 11–55). In Meaning in Anthropology, eds. K. Basso and H. Selby. Univ. of New Mexico Press.
• Bauman, Richard and Charles Briggs. 1990. “Poetics and Performances as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life.” Annual Review of Anthropology 19:59–88.
• Briggs, Charles and Richard Bauman. 1992. “Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 2(2):131–72.

Session 4: Entextualization and Enregisterment (May 19, 2023, 9–1030am CST, 4–530pm CET)

• Silverstein, Michael. 2022. Language in Culture: Lectures on the Social Semiotics of Language, Lectures 2–4. Cambridge University Press.

Background/classics:

• Goffman, Erving. 1981. “Footing” (pp. 124–57). Forms of Talk. Univ. of Pennsylania Press.
• Agha, Asif. 2003. “Social Life of Cultural Value.” Language & Communication 23(3–4):231–73.
• Agha, Asif. 2005. “Voicing, Footing, Enregisterment. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15(1):38–59.
• Urban, Greg. 1989. “The ‘I’ of discourse” (pp. 27–51). In B. Lee and G. Urban, eds. Semiotics, Self, and Society. Mouton de Gruyter.
• Silverstein, Michael. 1992. “The Indeterminacy of ‘Contextualization’: When is Enough Enough?” In P. Auer & A. DiLuzio, eds., The Contextualization of Language, pp. 55–75. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Fall 2023–Spring 2024 Meetings

Session 5: Online reading seminar: Friday November 10, 2023, 4–5:30pm (Paris time)

• Fabbri, P. and P. Perron. 1990. “Foreword” (pp. vi–xii). In The Social Sciences: A Semiotic View. University of Minnesota Press.
• Greimas, A. 1990 [1976]. “Towards a Topological Semiotics” (pp. 139–59). In The Social Sciences: A Semiotic View. University of Minnesota Press.

Session 6: Online reading seminar: Friday November 24, 2023,  4–6pm (Paris time)

• Fontanille, Jacques. 2006. “Foreword” (xvii-xxi), “From Sign to Discourse” (pp. 1–21), “Discourse” (pp. 45–93; OPTIONAL), *“Enunciation” (pp. 183–207; our main focus). In Semiotics of Discourse. Peter Lang.

Workshop 1: Friday December 8, 2023, all-day in-person workshop at the Paris Center, University of Chicago

• 10–12am Reading session: Casetti, Francesco. 1983 [1995]. “Face to Face” (pp. 118–40). In W. Buckland, ed. The Film Spectator. Amsterdam UP.
• 1–3pm Reading session: Metz, Christian. 1987[1995]. “Impersonal Enunciation, Or the Place of Film (In the Margin of Recent Works on the Enunciation in Cinema)” (pp. 140–63). In W. Buckland, ed. The Film Spectator. Amsterdam UP.
• 3:30–5:30pm Paper session: Nakassis, Constantine. “Actness of the Image: Notes on Entextualization and Enunciation.” .(Discussant: Tatsuma Padoan)

Session 7: Online reading seminar: Friday December 22, 2023,  4–6pm (Paris time)

• Agha, Asif. 2003. “Social Life of Cultural Value.” Language & Communication 23(3–4):231–73.
• ––––. 2005. “Voicing, Footing, Enregisterment. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15(1):38–59.
• optional: Agha, Asif. 2007. “Reflexivity” (pp. 14–55). Language and Social Relations. Cambridge University Press.

Workshop 2: Friday January 19, 2024 All-day in-person workshop at the Paris Center, University of Chicago

• 10–12am Reading Session: Bauman, Richard and Charles Briggs. 1990. Poetics and Performances as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life. Annual Review of Anthropology 19:59–88.
• 1–3pm Reading session: Silverstein, Michael. 2004. “Cultural” Concepts and the Language-Culture Nexus.” Current Anthropology 45(5):621–52.
• 3:30–5:30pm Paper session: Padoan, Tatsuma, “Ritual as Enunciative Praxis: Some Reflections from Katsuragi, Japan.” (Discussant: Felix Danos)

Session 8: Online Reading Seminar, Friday February 9, 2024, 4–6pm (Paris time)

• Hanks, William. 2005. “Explorations in the Deictic Field.” Current Anthropology 46(2):191–220.
• Hanks, William. 1987. “Discourse Genres in a Theory of Practice.” American Ethnologist 14(4):668–92.
• optional/background: Hanks, William F. 1996. “Three Phenomenologies of Language” (pp. 118–38). Language and communicative practices. Westview Press.

Session 9: Online Reading Seminar, Friday February 16, 2024, 4–6pm (Paris time)

• Marrone, Gianfranco. 2009. Chapter 1 (pp. 11–23), Chapter 4 (pp. 97–126). In The Ludovico Cure: On Body and Music in A Clockwork Orange. Legas.

Session 10: Online Reading Seminar, Friday March 8, 2024, 4–6pm (Paris time)

• Greimas, A. J. 1979. “On Games.” SubStance 8(4):31–35.
• Lotman, Yuri. 1990. “Three functions of a text” (pp. 11–19). In Universe of the Mind. Indiana University Press.
• Lotman, Yuri. “The text as process of movement: author to audience, author to text” (pp. 63–80). In Universe of the Mind. Indiana University Press.

Workshop 3: Friday March 22, 2024, all-day in-person workshop at Politecnico di Torino (organized by Alvise Mattozzi)

• Paper session: Franciscu Sedda, “ENUNCIA(C)TIONS: Body, Culture, and Meaning in the Light of Sardinian Dance.” (discussant: Constantine Nakassis)
• Reading session:
  • Leroi-Gourhan, André. 1993. Language Symbols (chapter 6). In Gesture and Speech. MIT Press, pp. 187–216.
  • Fontanille, Jacques. 1998. “Décoratif, iconicité et écriture. Geste, rythme et figurativité: à propos de la poterie berbère.” Visio 3(2):33–46. Working translation, by Aurora Donzelli, here.
• Paper session: Aurora Donzelli, “On the Making of Signboards: Corporeal Inscriptions and Material Transpositions of the Writing into the Written.” (discussant: Maria Giulia Dondero)

Session 11: Online reading seminar, Friday May 17, 2024,  4–6pm (Paris time)

• Valle, Andre and Allesandro Mazzei. 2017. Sapir–Whorf vs. Boas–Jakobson: Enunciation and the Semiotics of Programming Language. Lexia: Rivista di semiotica 27–28:505–25.
• Dondero, Maria Giulia. and Fontanille, Jacques. 2014. Chapters 1–2 (pp. 16–45), Chapter 3 (sections 3.1–3.2 only; pp. 45–53). The Semiotic Challenge of Scientific Images. A Test Case for Visual Meaning. Legas.

Workshop 4: Friday May 31–June 1, 2024, all-day in-person workshop at the Paris Center, University of Chicago

Friday, May 31, 2024

• 10am–12pm Paper session: Maria Guilia Dondero, “Enunciative Praxis in Artificial Intelligence Image Analysis and Generation”; (discussant: Aurora Donzelli)
• 1–3pm Reading session: Silverstein, Michael. 1979. “Language Structure and Linguistic Ideology.” In The Elements: A Parasession on Linguistic Units and Levels, ed. by R. Cline, W. Hanks, and C. Hofbauer. Chicago Linguistic Society.
• 3:30–5:30pm Paper session: Urmila Nair, “The Secret (gsang ba) in/on the Sign’s Eye View: Studying an Esoteric Buddhist Ritual at an Exile Tibetan Monastery”; (discussant: Enzo D’Armenio)

Saturday, June 1, 2024

• 10am–12pm Paper session: Enzo D’Armenio, “Semiotic Identities between Experience, Enunciation, and Communication”; . (discussant: Constantine Nakassis)

Session 12: Online reading seminar, Friday June 21, 2024, 4–6pm (Paris time)

• Latour, Bruno. 1999. “Petite philosophie de l’énonciation.” In P. Basso & L. Corrain (sous la direction de) Eloquio del senso. Dialoghi semiotici per Paolo Fabbri. Milano: Costa & Nolan, pp. 71–94. Working English translation, by Alvise Mattozzi and Tatsuma Padoan here.
• Martine, T., B. Brummans, and F. Cooren. 2020. “At the Junction Between Subsistence and Reference: A Pragmatist Take on Interaction Analysis.” Journal of Communication 70(1):90–113.

Workshop 5: Friday June 28–June 29, 2024, all-day in-person workshop at the Paris Center, University of Chicago

Friday, June 28, 2024

• 10am–12pm Paper session : Alvise Mattozzi, “ Circulating Enunciations, Regimes of Enunciation, and Modes of Existence: The Case of the Image of the Sleeve of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures” (discussant: Urmila Nair)
• 1–3pm Reading session: Kockelman, Paul. 2017. “Enemies, Parasites, and Noise.” In The Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 27–53.
• 3:30–5:30pm Paper session: Felix Danos, “Chronotopic Dissonance, and Para-sites of Ideological Work: The Situated Noising Out of Linguistic Variation in Rural Central France.” (discussant: Alvise Mattozzi)

Saturday, June 29, 2024

• 9–11am Paper session: Denis Bertrand, “Further Comments on ‘La générativité est-elle soluble dans le sensible ? Réflexions topologiques et énonciatives « au cœur » du parcours génératif’” (discussant: Franciscu Sedda); .pdf of French version, English translation (by Denis Bertrand), and framing commentary here.
• 11:10–12:30pm Roundtable discussion: points of contact, unresolved issues, future inquiries and next steps

 

Collective bibliography/further readings

Agha, Asif. 2003. “Social Life of Cultural Value.” Language & Communication 23(3–4):231–73.

Agha, Asif. 2005. “Voicing, Footing, Enregisterment. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15(1):38–59.

Briggs, Charles and Richard Bauman. 1992. “Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 2(2):131–72.

Cooren, François. 2006. “Between semiotics and pragmatics: Opening language studies to textual agency.” Journal of Pragmatics, 40: 1–16.

Casetti, Francesco. 1983 [1995]. “Face to Face” (pp. 118–40). In W. Buckland, ed. The Film Spectator. Amsterdam UP.

De Certeau, Michel. 1988. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Dondero, M.G. and Fontanille, J. 2014. The Semiotic Challenge of Scientific Images. A Test Case for Visual Meaning, Legas, Ottawa. (chapters 1–3). .pdf

Fontanille, Jacques. 2006[2003]. Semiotics of Discourse. Translation of revised edition by H. Bostic. Peter Lang.

Fontanille, Jacques. 2014. « L’énonciation pratique : exploration, schématisation et transposition », Talk at the Colloque Common’14, Liège, 24-26/09/2014. .pdf

Greimas, Algirdas J. 1990 [1976]. “Foreword” (by P. Fabbri and P. Perron), “Towards a Topological Semiotics”. In The Social Sciences: A Semiotic View. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Hanks, William F. 1996. Language and communicative practices. Westview Press, ch. 6, pp. 118–38.

Latour, Bruno. 1999. “Petite philosophie de l’énonciation.” In P. Basso & L Corrain (sous la direction de) Eloquio del senso. Dialoghi semiotici per Paolo Fabbri. Milano: Costa & Nolan, pp. 71–94.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. 1964. Signs. Northwestern University Press, chh. 1–2 (pp. 39–84).

Metz, Christian. 1987[1995]. “Impersonal Enunciation, Or the Place of Film” (pp. 140–63). In W. Buckland, ed. The Film Spectator. Amsterdam UP.

Munn, Nancy D.  1992. The Fame of Gawa: A symbolic study of value transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) society. Duke University Press. (Chh. 1, 3, 4, ; pp. 3–21, pp. 49–105)

Ricoeur, Paul. 1976. Interpretation theory: Discourse and the surplus of meaning. TCU press, chh. 1 & 2, pp. 1-43).

Silverstein, Michael. 2003. Translation, Transduction, Transformation: Skating “Glossando” on Thin Semiotic Ice. In Rubel, P and Rosman, A., eds. Translating Cultures. New York: Berg.

Tsing, Anna. 2013. “Sorting out commodities: How capitalist value is made through gifts.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3(1): 21-43.

Deixis/Indexicality/Enunciation/Voicing

Bakhtin, Mikhail. 1982. Dialogic Imagination. Univ. of Texas Press.

Benveniste, Émile. 1956[1971]. “The Nature of Pronouns” (pp. 217–22). In Problems in General Linguistics. Univ. of Miami Press.

Benveniste, Emile. 1958[1971]. “Subjectivity in Language” (pp. 223–30). Problems in General Linguistics. Univ. of Miami Press.

Benveniste, É., “Coup d’oeil sur le développement de la linguistique”, in Problèmes de linguistique generale I; Eng. trans. “A Look at the Development of Linguistics”, in Problems in General Linguistics I.

Benveniste, Emile. 1966[1971], “Correlations of Tense in the French Verb” (pp. 205–15). Problems in General Linguistics. Univ. of Miami Press.

Benveniste, Émile. 1970 [2014]. “The Formal Apparatus of Enunciation.” In J. Angermuller, D. Maingueneau and R. Wodak, eds. The Discourse Studies Reader: Main Currents in Theory and Analysis. John Benjamins, pp. 141–45.

Goffman, Erving. 1981. “Footing” (pp. 124–57). Forms of Talk. Univ. of Pennsylania Press.

Jakobson, Roman. 1957 [1984]. “Shifters, Verbal Categories, and the Russian Verb” (pp. 41–58). In L. Waugh and M. Halle, eds. Russian and Slavic Grammar: Studies, 1931–1981. Mouton.

Jakobson, Roman. 1958[1960]. “Closing Statement: Linguistics and Poetics” (pp. 350–77). In T. Sebeok, ed. Style in Language. MIT Press.

Jakobson, Roman. 1935[1987]. “The Dominant” (pp. 41–46). In Language in Literature. Harvard Univ. Press.

Silverstein, Michael. 1976. “Shifters, Linguistic Categories, and Cultural Description” (pp. 11–55). In Meaning in Anthropology, eds. K. Basso and H. Selby. Univ. of New Mexico Press.

Vološinov. Valentin. 1930[1973]. Marxism and the Philosophy of Language. Seminar Press.

Linguistic Anthropology (with a focus on entextualization)

Agha, Asif. 2003. “Social Life of Cultural Value.” Language & Communication 23(3–4):231–73.

Agha, Asif. 2005. “Voicing, Footing, Enregisterment. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15(1):38–59.

Agha, Asif. 2007. Language and Social Relations, chh. 1–4. Cambridge Univ. Press.

Bauman, Richard and Charles Briggs. 1990. Poetics and Performances as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life. Annual Review of Anthropology 19:59–88.

Briggs, Charles and Richard Bauman. 1992. “Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 2(2):131–72.

Hanks, William. 1989. Text and Textuality. Annual Review of Anthropology 18:95–127.

Hanks, William. 1996. “Exorcism and the Description of Participant Roles”. In Natural Histories of Discourse, edited by Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban, 160–200. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Hill, Jane. 1995. “The Voices of Don Gabriel: Responsibility and Self in a Modern Mexicano Narrative” (pp. 97–147). In D. Tedlock and B. Mannheim, eds. The Dialogic Emergence of Culture. Univ. of Illinois Press.

Irvine, Judith. 1996. Shadow Conversations. In Natural Histories of Discourse. University of Chicago Press.

Nakassis, Constantine. 2019. “Poetics of Praise and Image-Texts of Cinematic Encompassment.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 29(1):69–94.

Nakassis, Constantine. 2020. “Deixis and the Linguistic Anthropology of Cinema.” Semiotic Review 9, special issue on “Images” (Meghanne Barker and C. Nakassis, eds.).

Silverstein, Michael and Greg Urban, eds. 1996. Natural Histories of Discourse. University of Chicago Press. (In particular, chapters by Greg Urban, Michael Silverstein, Judith Irvine, William Hanks, Richard Bauman)

Silverstein, Michael. 2022. Language in Culture: Lectures on the Social Semiotics of Language. Cambridge Univ. Press.

Silverstein, Michael. 1993. Metapragmatic discourse and metapragmatic function. In J. A. Lucy, ed., Reflexive Language. University of Chicago Press, pp. 33–58.

Silverstein, Michael. 2003. Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life. Language and Communication 23(3–4):193–229.

Silverstein, Michael. 2004. “Cultural” concepts and the language-culture nexus. Current Anthropology 45(5):621–52.

Silverstein, Michael. 2021. The dialectics of indexical semiosis: Scaling up and out from the “actual” to the “virtual.” International Journal of the Sociology of Language 272:13–45.

Paris School Semiotics (with a focus on enunciation)

Bertrand, Denis. 2000. Précis de sémiotique littéraire. Paris: Édition Nathan HER,  chh. 3–4.

Casetti, Francesco. 1998. Inside the Gaze. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP.

Coquet, Jean-Claude. 2007. “Les instances énonçantes”, in Phusis et logos. Une phénoménologie du langage (Vincennes: PUV, ); It. trans. “Le istanze enuncianti”, in Le istanze enuncianti, edited by Paolo Fabbri (Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2008), 7-80.

De Certeau, Michel. 1988. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. 1987. A Thousand Plateaus. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Fabbri, Paolo. 2007. Le tournant sémiotique, Paris, Lavoisier (or. ed. 2001. La svolta semiotica. Rome and Bari: Laterza).

Fabbri, Paolo and Marina Sbisà. 1980. “Models (?) for a pragmatic analysis”. Journal of Pragmatics 4: 301-319.

Foucault, Michel, 1996. The Archeology of Knowledge. Vintage.

Greimas, Algirdas J. 1987. On Meaning: Selected Writings in Semiotic Theory. London: Frances Pinter.

Greimas, Algirdas J. (1976) 1990. The Social Sciences: A Semiotic View. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Greimas, Algirdas J., and Fontanille, Jacques. 1993. The Semiotics of Passions. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Floch, Jean-Marie. 2000. Visual Identities. London and New York: Continuum, ch. 1 and 5.

Fontanille, Jacques. 1989. Les espaces subjectif. Paris: Hachette, ch. 1.

Fontanille, Jacques. 2006[2003]. Semiotics of Discourse. Translation of revised edition by H. Bostic. Peter Lang.

Fontanille, Jacques. 2017. “Praxis and enunciation”. Sign Systems Studies 45(1/2): 54–69.

Greimas, Algirdas J. and Joseph Courtés. 1982. Semiotics and Language: An Analytical Dictionary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Hammad, Manar. (1989) 2002. The Privatisation of Space. Lund: Lund University.

Hammad, Manar. 2006. Lire l’espace, comprendre l’architecture. Limoges: PULIM.

Landowski, Eric. 1989. “Pragmatics and semiotics.” In Paris School Semiotics, Vol. I: Theory, ed. Paul Perron and Frank Collins. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Latour, Bruno. 1988. “A relativistic account of Einstein’s relativity.” Social Studies of Science 18 (1): 3–44.

Latour, Bruno. 1999. “Petite philosophie de l’énonciation.” In P. Basso & L Corrain (sous la direction de) Eloquio del senso. Dialoghi semiotici per Paolo Fabbri. Milano: Costa & Nolan, pp. 71–94.

Latour, Bruno. 2001. “‘Thou shall not take the Lord’s name in vain’—being a sort of sermon on the hesitations of religious speech.” Res 79 (39): 215–34.

Latour, B. 2013. An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP.

Marin, Louis. 2001. “Critical remarks on enunciation: The question of the present in discourse”. In his On Representation. Stanford: Stanford UP, ch. 8.

Marrone, Gianfranco. 2022. Introduction to the Semiotics of the Text. Berlin and Boston: DeGruyter.

Metz, Christian. 2016. Impersonal Enunciation. New York: Columbia UP.

Padoan, Tatsuma. 2021. “Pilgrimage and Spirit Possession: Reconnecting Senses, Discourse and Subjectivity on Mt Kiso Ontake”. Irish Journal of Asian Studies, 7, pp. 39-57.

Padoan, Tatsuma. 2021. “On the Semiotics of Space in the Study of Religions: Theoretical Perspectives and Methodological Challenges”. In T.-A. Poder and J. Van Boom (eds.), Sign, Method, and the Sacred: New Directions in Semiotic Methodologies for the Study of Religion. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 189-214.

Thurlemann, Felix. 1989. “Fictionality in Mantegna’s San Zeno Altarpiece Structures of Mimesis and the History of Painting”. New Literary History, Vol. 20, No. 3, special issue on “Greimassian Semiotics”: 747–76.