About the Journal

 

History

The creation of the journal Signifiances (Signifying) emerged from the need to publish innovative works on themes which are not represented in others journals (language and enaction, ecolinguistics, embodiment of the signifier, semiogenetics, interlocution, analogy). It claims to take over the journal Chréode. Vers une linguistique du signifiant (edited by Marie France Delport, Editions Hispaniques, Paris 4-Sorbonne, France) and Cahiers de linguistique analogique (edited by Philippe Monneret, ABELL, Dijon, France).

In May 2014, Philippe Monneret (University of Paris 4-Sorbonne, France) and Didier Bottineau (CNRS, France) launched an intellectual movement called SAISIE ("Signification, Analogy, Interlocution, Semiogenesis, Incarnation, Enaction". The aim is to give greater visibility and to federate isolated researchers in their laboratory or in their institutions but actually working on themes that need to be compared with each other and with other theories.
The annual electronic journal Signifiances (Signifying) was created in 2016 and hosted by the OJS platform of Clermont University. It is presented as a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary journal specialized in the themes defined in the following charter.

 

Charter of the journal Signifiances (Signifying)

(For the authors and issue coordinators)

The Signifiances (Signifying) charter defines the journal's editorial line.

 

  1. Fundamental theses of the journal Signifiances (Signifying)
  • Language is movement among other movements, an embodied and multimodal movement;
  • Language is construction and the observable facts are only discourses, which are constructed;
  • At the core of language functioning is interaction as much as individual processes;
  • The human factor must therefore be included among the criteria of analysis and must therefore be taken into account in the observation of linguistic and linguistic activities (affect, corporeality, deviations from the norm);
  • This involves endorsing all dimensions of the living being

         - as non-inert (assumes all potential and proven dynamic dimension of the living);

         - as a life-course (assumes the temporal dimension of life, and especially of language);

         - as an individual;

         - as a member of a community;

         - as part of a social, ecological and object-oriented environment.

  • Explicit metalinguistic reflection, even the implicit metalinguistic consciousness has the effect of reifying language by creating an illusion of permanence. However, both are also submited to an evolutionary approach, although they are mostly of a collective nature.

 

  1. Favourite thematics
  • Linguistics of the signifier (including lexical and grammatical submorphology);
  • Themes related to iconicity and analogy;
  • Lexical or grammatical semio- genesis;
  • Inaction and embodied cognition;
  • Interlocution and the theory of interlocution;
  • Theory of forms (Gestalt);
  • Code-switching and code-mixing;
  • Interculturality and language.

 

  1. Practices
  • Signifiances (Signifying) will be able to publish both thematic issues and varia.
  • The issues will consist of 7 articles minimum and 17 articles maximum.
  • Numbers will be preferentially interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary.
  • There must be at least two foreign contributors (i.e. attached to non-French institutions) per issue.
  • The scientific committee is also composed of at least one foreign member. Preferably and as far as possible, the proofreaders of an issue should not be included among the contributors.
  • The content of articles and other submissions must be original and innovative.
  • The publication support is exclusively electronic and its consultation is free (Open Access).
  • The number co-ordinators and the authors are requested to respect the electronic procedure of the OJS platform of Clermont Université which hosts the journal.
  • The languages of publication are French or English. The introduction must be written in a bilingual version.
  • Formal recommendations should also be strictly adhered to (see "Instructions to the Authors").

 

  1. Objectives of the journal

4.1 Dissemination, popularization, promotion of research on the themes of the journal

The journal Signifiances (Signifying) will be able to host the following works:
• Papers ;
• Proceedings;
• Presentations of unrecognized theses (PhD) or foreign works;
• Proofreading of works in linguistics by the prism of the emerging themes of the journal (proposing a scientific advance in relation to the initial work).
• Occasional issues, where articles will be published based on the aforementioned postulates and themes

4.2 Transcending disciplines

One of the objectives of this journal is to create interdisciplinary works, coming mainly from the following fields:
• All fields of language sciences and information and communication sciences
• Poetics / specific uses of signifiers (slips, witticisms, paraphiology, slogans, brand names, in particular)
• Philosophy ; literature or rhetoric (impact of incarnation and / or analysis of signifiers, for example)
• Cognitive science, social psychology in relation to language and discussing or postulating questions related to the paradigm of enaction, incarnated, situated or distributed cognition or interlocution.

4.3 Achieving sustained partnerships at the national and international levels
• The Distributed Language Group ;

  • The Center for Human Interaction (University of Southern-Denmark)
    • The SAISIE Group (France)
    • The LangEnact network (20 countries)
    • The Departament of Teoria dels Lenguatges i Cienciès de la Comunicació (University of Valencia, Spain)

 

Signifiances (Signifying) - ISSN 2606-0442

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