Semiotics & Communication Division

'We're the Paran Maum': LInda Linda Linda, Aural Semiotics, and Sonic Identity

This paper is an attempt to treat cinema sound as politicized and ideologically rich. Beginning with a critique of the scholarship that establishes the semiotics of cinema sound, I incorporate texts on sonic

Three Faces of Modernity in Beijing: Nationalism, Globalization, and Science

This article addresses three facets of modernity which are signified by slogans and spatial settings in Beijing, China. The research was conducted as the preliminary study of the communication process