Is social semiotics a unitary research field? An introductory and comparative mapping of Argentinean, Brazilian, French, Italian and English-speaking semiotic approaches to social meaning-making

In the 1980s, researchers from different academic circles around the world started paying attention to the functioning of the social realm with a focus on signification and sense-making. Since then, they have shown particular interest in  studying practices, interactions and spatiality, among other objects of study, as activities that convey social meaning and produce sense. This is how the field of social semiotics emerged within general semiotics. However, the emergence of this new research field occurred in a fragmented manner. Nowadays, English-speaking ‘social semiotics’ coexists with at least two French sociosémiotiques, with Argentinean sociosemiótica, with Italian sociosemiotica and with Brazilian sociossemiótica. This article examines these five accounts of social semiotics in a comparative manner with a focus on the theoretical and methodological references they use as their sources. Therefore, the article should function as an introductory roadmap for researchers within the social and human sciences interested in approaching contemporary social semiotics and sociosemiotic research.In the 1980s, researchers from different academic circles around the world started paying attention to the functioning of the social realm with a focus on signification and sense-making. Since then, they have shown particular interest in  studying practices, interactions and spatiality, among other objects of study, as activities that convey social meaning and produce sense. This is how the field of social semiotics emerged within general semiotics. However, the emergence of this new research field occurred in a fragmented manner. Nowadays, English-speaking ‘social semiotics’ coexists with at least two French sociosémiotiques, with Argentinean sociosemiótica, with Italian sociosemiotica and with Brazilian sociossemiótica. This article examines these five accounts of social semiotics in a comparative manner with a focus on the theoretical and methodological references they use as their sources. Therefore, the article should function as an introductory roadmap for researchers within the social and human sciences interested in approaching contemporary social semiotics and sociosemiotic research

Is social semiotics a unitary research field? An introductory and comparative mapping of Argentinean, Brazilian, French, Italian and English-speaking semiotic approaches to social meaning-making

In the 1980s, researchers from different academic circles around the world started paying attention to the functioning of the social realm with a focus on signification and sense-making. Since then, they have shown particular interest in  studying practices, interactions and spatiality, among other objects of study, as activities that convey social meaning and produce sense. This is how the field of social semiotics emerged within general semiotics. However, the emergence of this new research field occurred in a fragmented manner. Nowadays, English-speaking ‘social semiotics’ coexists with at least two French sociosémiotiques, with Argentinean sociosemiótica, with Italian sociosemiotica and with Brazilian sociossemiótica. This article examines these five accounts of social semiotics in a comparative manner with a focus on the theoretical and methodological references they use as their sources. Therefore, the article should function as an introductory roadmap for researchers within the social and human sciences interested in approaching contemporary social semiotics and sociosemiotic research.In the 1980s, researchers from different academic circles around the world started paying attention to the functioning of the social realm with a focus on signification and sense-making. Since then, they have shown particular interest in  studying practices, interactions and spatiality, among other objects of study, as activities that convey social meaning and produce sense. This is how the field of social semiotics emerged within general semiotics. However, the emergence of this new research field occurred in a fragmented manner. Nowadays, English-speaking ‘social semiotics’ coexists with at least two French sociosémiotiques, with Argentinean sociosemiótica, with Italian sociosemiotica and with Brazilian sociossemiótica. This article examines these five accounts of social semiotics in a comparative manner with a focus on the theoretical and methodological references they use as their sources. Therefore, the article should function as an introductory roadmap for researchers within the social and human sciences interested in approaching contemporary social semiotics and sociosemiotic research

Somebody to blame: on the construction of the other in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak

Besides the impact that COVID-19 has had in the sanitary, political and economic domains, it has also triggered multiple discursive processes, what opens up the field for an analysis from sociosemiotics, the social science interested in the study of "meaning in action". The aim of this article is to discuss from such a perspective how the current crisis linked to the COVID-19 virus has given place to the emergence of processes of narrative construction of an "Other" to be blamed for the threat. While in some contexts the dominant narrative has been that COVID-19 is "the Chinese" -and their unhealthy culinary habits- fault, in others the focus has been set on ‘the irresponsible’ that do not stay home when indicated to do so, as well as on "the posh", given that they can afford travelling and hence can import the virus on their return. Departing from the premise which poses that cognition is articulated in narrative terms, the article argues how, in cases such as the current COVID-19 crisis, a discursive construction of collective actors by means of mechanisms of actorialization, generalization and axiologization is necessary for the dynamics of blame-attribution

La protección de los derechos de los consumidores en Colombia: el caso de la acción de tutela

Trabajo de investigaciónLa acción de tutela es un mecanismo subsidiario de los derechos fundamentales, la acción representa un avance en materia de protección de derechos dada por la Constitución Política de Colombia, que puede definirse como una acción judicial subsidiaria, residual y autónoma, dirigida a permitir el control constitucional de las acciones u omisiones de todas las autoridades públicas y excepcionalmente de los particulares.RESUMEN 1. INTRODUCCIÓN 2. LEVANTAMIENTO DE INFORMACIÓN 3. CONCLUSIONES REFERENCIASPregradoAbogad

Estimation of productivity change of NBA teams from 2006-07 to 2012-13 seasons

"... acknowledgements at FiT Publishing"The aim of this work is to evaluate the productivity change of the NBA teams during the last seven seasons (from 2006-07 to 2012-13). Within that period of time, a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) of the National Basketball Association (NBA) was ratified before season 2011-12, ending a 161-day lockout. The Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) has been used to measure the total factor productivity, while an input-oriented Network DEA approach is used to compute the distance of each observation to the corresponding frontier. The results reveal that there has been technological progress for the last few seasons, excluding that of the 2011 lockout, and an increasing efficiency change. This means that best practices are improving and that most teams have been reducing their payrolls to catch up with these practices, thus backing up the owners’ proposal to reduce players’ income. Also regression results show that changes in the number of wins are more dependent upon scale efficiency change than upon budget or efficiency changes

Análisis del posicionamiento estratégico del café del Huila y el desarrollo de los cafés especiales

El proyecto de grado titulado “Análisis del posicionamiento estratégico del café del Huila y el desarrollo de los cafés especiales” tiene el objetivo general de estudiar y hacer públicas las ventajas de producir café de alta calidad en el departamento del Huila, puesto que existen algunas zonas del departamento que no tienen una producción de calidad certificada, lo cual ha generado cuellos de botella en relación a la demanda potencial y real con la Unión Europea. En la investigación se busca la manera de incrementar la zona productora de cafés especiales para satisfacer el mercado Europeo que es gustador del tipo de café que se cultiva en la región Huilense por la suavidad, aroma, entre otras variables influyentes. El desarrollo de este proyecto en esta región del país, se sustenta por la mayor producción de café a nivel nacional. Asimismo, también porque es el abanderado en cafés especiales y cuenta con la mayoría de fincas certificadas con algún sello de conducta en Colombia. Lo anterior, se ha alcanzado con la aplicación de buenas prácticas para la sostenibilidad del cultivo, la gran labor de renovación de cafetales y al don cafetero que tiene la gente del Huila debido a que es el negocio agrícola más importante.The entitled project Analysis of the strategic positioning of coffee in Huila and development of special coffee beans has the overall objective to study and publicize the advantages of producing high quality coffee in the department of Huila, Colombia; Due to there are some areas in which the department does not have a certified quality production, which leads to a failure on the demand and supply in relation to the potential and the actual demand from the European Union. The research seeks ways to increase special coffee production areas in order to satisfy the European market which is the leading consumer of the coffee cultivated in the region of Huila, Colombia, due to its softness aroma, among other major influential variables. The development of this project in this region is sustained because it is the major coffee production nationwide. Furthermore Huila is the leader producer of special coffee beans and has been certified by the legal standards of Colombian farming which follows international guidelines. It has been achieved by the implementation of good practices for sustainability of the crop, the great work of renovation of coffee plantations and the gifted agricultural ability of the people from Huila because of this is the most important agricultural business.Universidad Del Rosari

Avances en la legislación migratoria argentina y persistencia en las prácticas laborales precarias : el caso de los migrantes bolivianos en la agricultura de Mendoza

El presente trabajo se propone visibilizar las dificultades que se encuentran en Mendoza al momento de alcanzar la efectiva implementación de la nueva política migratoria, por medio del análisis de contenido (Krippendorff, 1990) de denuncias periodísticas publicadas en medios de comunicación locales y nacionales en el período 2007 - 2012. La anticipación de sentido que guía el trabajo reside en que a pesar de la ampliación de derechos que trae consigo la nueva ley de migraciones, las condiciones de vulnerabilidad que exhiben los grupos de trabajadores migrantes se mantienen. Como caso paradigmático se señala a la agricultura, rama productiva que arroja las mayores denuncias por trabajo informal e infantil, y que exhibe las condiciones laborales más precarias en el contexto provincial, siendo uno de los principales destinos para los trabajadores migrantes bolivianos que viven o transitan por Mendoza.Fil: Moreno, Marta Silvia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasFil: Martín Valdez, Sebastián. Universidad Nacional de Rosari