Ethnosemiotics

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present the major theoretical orientations of ethnosemiotics in Italy. Ethnosemiotics is a semiotics that aims to deal with the analysis of socio-cultural phenomena, considering these as a privileged place within which to grasp the signification in its making. In the article we will try to outline the historical and theoretical path of the discipline focusing attention on the works of Maurizio del Ninno and on the Bolognese Research Center of Ethnosemiotics coordinated by Francesco Marsciani, to try to retrace the main stages that led to the development of this particular branch of Italian semiotics. Finally, the theoretical ideas on which the Ethnosemiotics Laboratory and the Bolognese University Center of Ethnosemiotics are working will be presented.