An event in global Semiotikland

Abstract

he recent publication of Theory and Methodology of Semiotics: The Tradition of Ferdinand de Saussure (which we will refer to here as TMS) by Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos and Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou is a veritable event in global Semiotikland. The initial aim of the two authors, Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos (semiotician, architect-engineer, urban planner, and social anthropologist) and Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou (semiotician, specialist in medieval and comparative literature), was to provide a much-needed manual of Saussurean semiotics, drawing from their ongoing research and teaching at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. This aim is fully attained in the first half of their book and greatly surpassed in the second.