Cultura. International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology Thomson Reuters (ISI) - Arts & Humanities Citation Index, EBSCO Humanities International Index, EBSCO Humanities International Complete, EBSCO TOC Premier, SCOPUS (Elsevier), MLA International Bibliography, The International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP), Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Summon by Serial Solutions, Electronic Social and Science Citation Index (ESSCI), SCImago. Rejection rate: 60% - 70% December 2012 Issue CFP: Semiotics of World Cultures This thematic issue seeks to examine semiotic practices specific to cultures and communities. It contemplates cultural communication as a process where biophysical, technological, and socio-cultural factors interact, and through which institutionalized technological media produce, transform and circulate sign-representations. The volume seeks to confront elements traditionally considered ‘essential’ and ‘universal’, and thus, ‘fixed’ (i.e. human perceptual modes), with the continuously changing patterns of cultural and technological manifestations. It proposes a revision of the ontology of perception and of the emergence of human communicative potential by relating neuroscientific research and socio-contructivist understandings of human physical development, and integrating these findings with the evolving nature of the technical media that social beings use to communicate at a distance. The volume will explore the semiotic resources used in specific institutional and social contexts at a global level, and help unveil how they reflect and conceal specific interests, power relations and communicative strategies that change over time for various reasons, among them economic interests and changing technologies. The issue welcomes papers on discourse analysis, multimedia analysis, cultural anthropology, political sociology, intersubjective perspectives to neuroscience, etc., and aims at the inclusion of the widest possible number of world cultures. Call for Papers Deadline: August 31st Author information Prospective authors should send their contributions to the following address: [email protected] The editorial staff may alter manuscripts wherever necessary to make them conform to the journal’s style. Although we accept papers in German, French, Italian and Spanish, we encourage those written in English. The language must be checked by a native speaker. GUIDELINES: Together with the manuscript, the authors must send their actual professional address and the e-mail address. TITLE Do not underline, italicize, or place your title in quotation marks; write the title in Title Case (standard capitalization), not in all capital letters. If the article is in another language, the manuscripts must include the translation of the title in English ABSTRACT No more than 200 words, in English. KEYWORDS 5-7 words in English. The manuscript cannot be longer than 8000 words. The book reviews cannot be longer than 3000 words. The manuscript should be typed and single-spaced on A4 paper, Gramond style 12. Emphasizing italics are not to be used excessively. Bold type is not used anywhere in an article, apart from the title. Use italics for the title of the work and, only when is absolutely necessary, providing emphasis. If the paper is divided into sections use an Arabic number and a period followed by a space and the section name. In-text citations: any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the References page. The author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your References page. The author's name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. When a source has no known author, use a shortened title of the work instead of an author name. Place the title in quotation marks if it's a short work (e.g. articles) or italicize it if it's a longer work (e.g. plays, books, television shows, entire websites) and provide a page number. Do not include URLs in-text. Only provide partial URLs such as when the name of the site includes a domain. Multiple citations. To cite multiple sources in the same parenthetical reference, separate the citations by a semi-colon. Quoted material, translations and page references must be exact. For short quotations enclose the quotation within double quotation marks. Question marks and exclamation points should appear within the quotation marks if they are a part of the quoted passage but after the parenthetical citation if they are a part of your text. The extended quotations (40+ words) are displayed (with left indentation). In displayed quotations no quotation marks are used around the quotation itself.
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Editor-in-Chief: Prof. dr. Nicolae Râmbu, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Political Sciences, Iasi, Romania
Co-Editors: Prof. dr. Aldo Marroni, Facoltà di Scienze Sociali, Università degli Studi "G.d'Annunzio", Chieti-Pescara, Italy PD Dr. Till Kinzel, Englisches Seminar, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Executive Editor: Dr. Simona Mitroiu, Human Sciences Research Department, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania Editorial Advisory Board:
Prof. Dr. Alexandru Boboc, Correspondent member of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania Prof. Emeritus Dr. Horst Baier, University of Konstanz, Germany Prof. Dr. Nancy Billias, Department of Philosophy, Saint Joseph College, Hartford, USA Prof. Dr. Teresa Castelao-Lawless, Grand Valley State University, USA Prof. Dr. Fernando Cipriani, ‘G.d'Annunzio’ University Chieti-Pescara, Italy Prof. Dr. Elif Cirakman, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Prof. Dr. David Cornberg, University Ming Chuan, Taiwan Prof. Dr. Carmen Cozma, ‘Alexandru Ioan Cuza’ University Iassy, Romania Prof. Dr. Paul Cruysberghs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Prof. Dr. Nic Gianan, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines Prof. Dr. Michael Jennings, Princeton University, USA Prof. Dr. Maximiliano E. Korstanje, John F. Kennedy University, Buenos Aires, Argentina Prof. Dr. Richard L. Lanigan, Southern Illinois University, USA Prof. Dr. Asunción López-Varela Azcárate, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Prof. Dr. Mario Perniola, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy Prof. Dr. Christian Möckel, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Prof. Dr. José María Paz Gago, University of Coruña, Spain Prof. Dr. Leszek S. Pyra, Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland Prof. Dr. A.L.Samian, National University of Malaysia Prof. Dr. Dimitar Sashev, University of Sofia, Bulgaria Prof. Dr. Kiymet Selvi, Anadolu University, Istanbul, Turkey Prof. Dr. Traian D. Stănciulescu, ‘Alexandru Ioan Cuza’ University Iassy, Romania Prof. Dr. Gloria Vergara, University of Colima, Mexico
