A. Theory and Methodology
1. Language-Object and Semiotic Meta-Language
From Traditionalism and (Post)Modernism to Transmodernist Patterns
Language of Nature and Nature of Language
Culture vs. Civilization, Technology vs. Humanism
From Computers’ Era to Humanistic Assumption of the World
2. The Know-How of Trans/postmodernist Knowledge and Discourse
(Un)managing terminology and methods
(Dis)functionality of a ‘new’ language?
The game of codes
(Un)controlling means of communicating messages
3. Signs for/of a harmonizing global world
The force of synergetic languages: arts, science and technology, philosophy and religion
Semiotics - the unifying way in the 21st century ?
B. APPLIED STUDIES
1. Managing multicultural challenges within an enlarged Europe
Enculturation, ethnicity or/and acculturation, multiculturation and the response of culture-making groups
Global communication: between limits and possibilities, or trials of a changing world
Transcultural communi(cati)on – what to do with language in this new world, or resources of/for an international dialogue
From dialects to Internet slang
Mass Media: the (dis)harmonizing impact power?
Creative transdialogue: visual arts, music, literature
European values versus Romanian values
2. (Re-/de-) Constructing identities in a globalizing world
The human being, a measure of everything ?: transdisciplinary answers
Marketing identities in a global world
A new discourse: diversity in unity: transgressing centres and margins/ public and private/masculinity and femininity etc.
3. Transdisciplinarity: a ‘semiotic bridge’ in a ‘transmodernist world’?
Managing communication in global economy/ markets
(Financial) semiotics - particular signs as a means of predicting exchange rates
(Trans)communication strategies of science unification
2nd ROASS CONFERENCE - SESSIONS
TRANSMODERNITY: MANAGING GLOBAL COMMUNICATION
SESSIONS
