
Academic Journal
Q2Chinese Semiotic Studies
About Chinese Semiotic Studies
Chinese Semiotic Studies is a scholarly journal published by De Gruyter Mouton. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q2, with an SJR of 0.225 and H-index of 13.
Coverage: 2009-2025. Research categories: Linguistics and Language (Q2); Communication (Q3).
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Topics in published research
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition; Translation Studies and Practices; Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education; Discourse Analysis in Language Studies; Semiotics and Representation Studies; Media, Communication, and Education.
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Recent Research Articles
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A semiotics of freedom: “fabulous” freedom and the agential self in narration as dialogic abduction
Yunhee Lee
2026-06-10 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2026-2003Kitsch, fandom, and the rise and fall of authenticity: an existential exploration
Hans-Georg Moeller
2026-06-10 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2026-2005Frontmatter
2026-06-10 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2026-frontmatter2Apophasis, cataphasis, and the distinctions between unsignifiables
Daniel Fried
2026-06-10 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2026-2002The semiotics of flourishing: unearthing a Daoist phenomenology of dynamic attunement
Thomas Michael
2026-06-10 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2025-0032Surveillance is only a symptom: artificial intelligence and the systematic enforcement of profile-based identity
Paul J. D’Ambrosio
2026-06-10 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2025-0033Upliving: lessons from Chinese semiotics
Massimo Leone
2026-06-10 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2026-2001Toward a trans* theorization of Chinese danmei
Ling Yang
2026-06-10 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2026-2004Natural but not ziran : knowing enough and mastering cessation in the Laozi
Rory O’Neill
2026-04-09 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2025-0026Frontmatter
2026-04-09 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2026-frontmatter1Post-pandemic city branding: multimodal identity construction of Wuhan through a promotional video
Lili Jia, Xi Wang
2026-04-09 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2025-0024The construction of Mexicanidad : literary representations of the Mexican Revolution
Kunfei Li
2026-04-09 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2025-0016A semiotic inquiry on the other, othering, and otherization processes
Hilal Yurtseven, Murat Kalelioğlu
2026-04-09 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2025-0022A piece of Thailand recontextualized in Hong Kong: a linguistic and semiotic landscape account of “Little Thailand” in Kowloon city
Chonglong Gu, Narongdej Phanthaphoommee
2026-04-09 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2025-0030Exploring poetic effects through the lens of conversational implicature in Seamus Heaney’s poetry
Fengguang Liu, Mengyao Liu, Jihong Zhao
2026-04-09 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2025-0017Semiotic stratification of pine-cypress: from arboreal totems to confucian ethics
Ji Yang, Tianyu Li, Yun Liao
2026-04-09 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2025-0019Orchestrating mobility: a study on the linguistic landscape of the Seac Pai Van Park in Macau through a language–spatial relationships lens
Everard Jun-Jie Ma, Tian-You Tang, Chonglong Gu
2026-04-09 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2025-0028Translating inter-semiotic paratexts in comics – a comparative study on two Chinese translation versions of Understanding comics: the invisible art
Zhaoxing Xu
2025-12-18 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2025-0006Frontmatter
2025-12-18 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2025-frontmatter4Drawing the semiotic object out of nothing(ness): a diagrammatic investigation into the irreducible triadic relation of discrimination
Thierry Mortier
2025-12-18 · DOI: 10.1515/css-2025-0010Reviews
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