Description:
The International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric (IJSVR) combines interdisciplinary research on meaning and the exchange of ideas with an emphasis on signs and visual imagery in both spoken and written communications. This journal publishes original research on essential topics within... Show More
The International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric (IJSVR) combines interdisciplinary research on meaning and the exchange of ideas with an emphasis on signs and visual imagery in both spoken and written communications. This journal publishes original research on essential topics within the realm of semiotic processes, symbols, visual codes, pragmatics, and the relationship between signs and what they denote.
Mission & Scope:
The mission of the International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric (IJSVR) is to provide a forum for comparative, theoretical, and empirical research on the use and manipulation of signs and symbols in various forms of communication. Highlighting diverse cross-disciplinary applications within the fields of business, education, media studies, computer science, psychology, government... Show More
The mission of the International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric (IJSVR) is to provide a forum for comparative, theoretical, and empirical research on the use and manipulation of signs and symbols in various forms of communication. Highlighting diverse cross-disciplinary applications within the fields of business, education, media studies, computer science, psychology, government, linguistics, and social science, the timely research featured in this journal aims to further the knowledge resources available to students, researchers, academics, and professionals.
Coverage:
- Advertising and semiotics
- Biosemiotics
- Computational semiotics
- Cultural semiotics
- Linguistics
- Literature/Literary Studies
- Organizational semiotics
- Pragmatics
- Production of meaning
- Rhetoric
- Semiology
- Semiotic processes
- Semiotics
- Signs
- Structuralism
- Textual semiotics
- Visual codes
- Visual Communication
- Visual Rhetoric
- Visual semiotics
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All inquiries regarding IJSVR should be directed to the attention of:
Submission-Related InquiriesDr. Mehdi Khosrow-Pour
Interim Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric (IJSVR)
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