Roland Posner
Roland Posner (30 June 1942 in Prague – 26 May 2020 in Berlin) was a German semiotician and linguist. He was Professor of Technische Universität Berlin since 1974. He was editor-in-chief of the Zeitschrift für Semiotik and an editor of a major 4-volume handbook in semiotics.
Roland Posner
- Born
- 1942 · Prague.
- Died
- 2020 · Berlin.
- Nationality
- Czechoslovakia
- Occupation
- university teacher · artist · linguist · photographer
- Fields
- linguistics · semiotics · photography · performance artwork
- Languages
- German · English
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Roland Posner (30 June 1942 in Prague – 26 May 2020 in Berlin) was a German semiotician and linguist. He was Professor of Technische Universität Berlin since 1974. He was editor-in-chief of the Zeitschrift für Semiotik and an editor of a major 4-volume handbook in semiotics.
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Roland Posner worked in linguistics, semiotics, photography and performance artwork. He was employed by Technische Universität Berlin. He worked at Berlin.
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Roland Posner is recorded as university teacher, artist, linguist and photographer.
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1942
Roland Posner was born in 1942 at Prague.
2020
Roland Posner died in 2020 at Berlin.
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He was the President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies in 1994–2004. He was one of founders of the International Society for Gesture Studies.
• Posner, Roland 1982. Rational Discourse and Poetic Communication: Methods of Linguistic, Literary, and Philosophical Analysis. Berlin: Mouton. • Posner, Roland (ed.) 1990. Warnungen an die ferne Zukunft: Atommüll als Kommunikationsproblem. Raben. • Jorna, Rene; Heusden, Barend van; Posner, Ronald (eds.) 1993. Signs, Search and Communication: Semiotic Aspects of Artificial Intelligence. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. • Posner, Roland 2000. Semiotic pollution: Deliberations towards an ecology of signs. Sign Systems Studies 28: 290–308. • Posner, Roland 2011. Eight historical paradigms of the human sciences. In: Peil, Tiina (ed.), The Space of Culture – the Place of Nature in Estonia and Beyond. (Approaches to Culture Theory 1.) Tartu: Tartu University Press, 20–38.
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