University of Tartu, Department of Semiotics : Silvi Salupere

editor, lecturer of semiotics contact: Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu Tiigi 78-306 50410 Tartu Estonia el: +372 737 6154 E-mail: silvi.salupere@ut.ee

main fields of research:

general semiotics, its theory and methodology
history of semiotics
Semiotics of Tartu-Moscow School

current research projects:

Meaning-generation and transdisciplinary methodology of semiotic analysis of culture

latest courses:

Introduction to Semiotics (every year)
History of Semiotics (every year)
French Structuralism

other academic activities:

2005-... Acta Semiotica Estica (co-editor)
1999-... Estonian Semiotics Association
1998-... Tartu Semiotics Library (co-editor)

selected publications:

Salupere, S. (ed) Peet Lepik. Universals in the Context of Juri Lotman’s Semiotics. Tartu: Tartu University Press, 2008, 269 p.
Salupere, S. Semiootika teadusena [Semiotics as a Science]. – In: Vihalemm, R. (comp) [Science Studies: goals and methods]. Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2007, pp. 104-120.
Salupere, S. La traduction scandaleuse: de la possibilité et de la nécessité de traduire les obscénités: (sur la traduction russe d'une nouvelle de Peeter Sauter). – In: Talviste, K. et al (eds) Relecture et découverte : colloque à l'occasion du 80e anniversaire de l'Institut scientifique français Tartu, 21-22 septembre 2002. Tartu: Tartu University Press, 2006, pp. 129- 142.
Salupere, S. (ed) Marina Grishakova. The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov’s Fiction: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames. Tartu: Tartu University Press, 2006, 324 p.
Grišakova, M.; Salupere, S. Text Transfer and a Configuration of the Cultural Field. – In: Hasselblatt, C. (ed) Different Inputs - Same Output? Autonomy and Dependence of the Arts under Different Social-Economic Conditions: The Estonian Example (Studies Fenno-Ugrica Groningana 3). Maastricht: Shaker , 2006, pp. 7-17.
Torop, P.; Salupere, S.; Kull, K. Semiotics Has No Beginning. – In: Deely, J. Semiootika alused/Basics of Semiotics. Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2005, pp. 4-25.
Salupere, S. Übersetzung tabuisierter Lexik: Am Beispiel einer Novelle von Peeter Sauter. – In: Rothe, M. (eds). Körper, Zeichen, Kultur 16; Körpertabus und Umgehungsstrategien. Berlin: Weidler, 2005, S. 181-188.

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