Research Center for Semiotics RCS

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Technical University Berlin

 
Technical University Berlin
Faculty 1: Humanities
Department for Language and Communication
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The organizational activities of the RCS are widespread. Highlights were: 

10/1975 The first International Semiotics Congress in West Germany, which led to the foundation of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semiotik Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semiotik DGS in 1976 
10/1979 The International Workshop on the Systematics, Terminology, and History of Semiotics, which discussed the aims and the structure of the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics (editor: T.A. Sebeok, published by Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York; 3 volumes, 1986) and Semiotics: A Handbook on the Sign-Theoretic Foundations of Nature and Culture (editors: R. Posner, K. Robering, and T.A. Sebeok, published by Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 3 volumes, 1997f)
04/1998 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Everyday Gestures
04/1998 Founding meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies
10/1999 Machines and history
9th international DGS congress TU Dresden
The RCS also organised twelve other symposiums on the semiotics of language and culture, some of which took place within the framework of the DGS and in cooperation with partners from abroad. 

 



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