Semiotica

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Open AccessThe current volume ofSemioticais open access via Subscribe to Open (S2O). All accepted articles will be published under a Creative Commons license at no cost to authors. Learn more about De Gruyter Brill’sSubscribe to Open program. ObjectiveSemioticais published in six annual issues, in two languages (English and French). From time to time, Special Issues, devoted to topics of particular interest, are assembled by Guest Editors. The publishers ofSemioticaoffer an annual prize, the Mouton d'Or, to the author of the best article each year. The article is selected by an independent international jury. TopicsWe welcome papers reporti ng results of research in a ll branches of semiotic studies. Title:The role of sentiment, aesthetic behavior, and narrative semiosis in the identification of selfhood from Peirce’s semiotic perspective. The committee has selected Yunhee Lee’s paper in recognition of its theoretical originality, methodological rigor, and interdisciplinary contribution to contemporary semiotic stud ies. The paper offers a sophisticated and innovative exploration of agency as a biosemiotic construct, productively extending Peirce’s semiotic framework into the domain of film and narrative studies. Lee introduces a non-traditional yet compelling approach by applying Peircean semiotics to narrative-based theories, thereby enriching existing accounts of enunciation and selfhood. The focus on the self as a semiotic agent in the highly technologized world provides a robust conceptual foundation for rethinking narrative communication in the 21st century through a Peircean lens. One of the paper’s key strengths lies in its treatment of selfhood as both the subject of experiential sign activity and as a storytelling agent in narrative communication. By bridging phenomenological and analytic philosophical perspectives, the author develops a nuanced account of the self as semiotic agency, grounded in Peirce’s categories and attentive to the dynamic interplay b

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