Semiotics Will be Hybrid or Will Not be

Abstract

In recent years, semiotics has significantly developed its interdisciplinarity and demonstrated its natural capacity to hybridise with other fields. Whether it is a matter of breaking out of the cultural framework that saw its birth and theorisation, of associating itself with the life sciences or the information sciences, or of providing concrete tools or new theoretical models, the discipline has increasingly demonstrated its full potential. To introduce this special issue devoted to the new avenues explored by the discipline, I will return in this article to what makes it so rich: the grey areas, the blurred boundaries, the complex subjects, the necessarily hybrid objects.