Sociosemiotica: teorie, esplorazioni, prospettive

Abstract

What is sociosemiotics? As it will be attempted to show in this paper it is at least in its Italian version, a specific way that semiotics has of conceiving social reality. We will clarify in these pages the theoretical assumptions of contemporary semiotics that have made possible the edification of sociosemiotics as a current specific to the theory of signification. And the main contributions produced in this field roughly in the last twenty years, starting with the publication of a key text for the the development of sociosemiotics, Gianfranco Marrone's "Corpi Sociali" (2001), to which a specific in-depth discussion will be dedicated.