Antonio Nanni

Northwestern University | NU · Department of Sociology

Scientific research is governed by strict disciplinary norms and symbolic boundaries. This highly structured context is the space of probables, which dictates what research is likely to occur. Interdisciplinarity may disrupt these disciplinary norms by bridging epistemic gaps across disciplines to foster originality. But can interdisciplinarity act...

This article draws on interpretative semiotics to address how spatial designers endow the built environment with meaning. From a semiotic perspective, designing the built environment is an activity that extends beyond its physical reshaping. Designers use complex sociosemiotic strategies to funnel users’ interpretations, drawing upon their manifold...

Semiotics has not systematically examined the notion of "genre". After a literature review, I will outline three approaches to genres: the pragmatic approach, the linguistic approach, and the intertextual approach. The first two approaches are compatible with immanence as it is used in the parcours génératif. On the contrary, the last approach will...