Thought-Sign-Symbol

Monika Kopytowska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Pragmatics at the University of Łódź, Poland. Her research interests revolve around the interface of language and cognition, identity, and the pragma-rhetorical aspects of the mass-mediated representation of religion, ethnicity, and conflict. Artur Gałkowski is Associate Professor of Italian and French linguistics at the University of Łódź, Poland. His research interests cover various issues in onomastics, semiotics, and translation.Massimo Leone is Tenured Full Professor of Philosophy of Communication, Cultural Semiotics, and Visual Semiotics at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Turin, Italy. His research focuses on semiotics, religious studies, and visual studies.

• interface of language, culture and religion – semiotic nature of religious practices, representations and artefacts – religious symbolism – interface of the verbal and the visual – religious discourse as product and process