E-mail: gorlee@xs4all.nl
Dinda L. Gorlée is an applied linguist and semiotician who brings together the semiotic discussion of translation in semiotranslation and transduction. She investigates the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Roman Jakobson’s intralingual, interlingual, and intersemiotic translation, cryptography and artificial languages, vocal translation.of musical texts (songs, opera and church hymns), and other forms of semiotic translation.
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Di Leo, Jeffrey R., and Dinda L. Gorlée, eds. 2026. Late Peirce : The Life and Thought of Charles S. Peirce from 1900-1914. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003567615
Including co-authors:
Wittgenstein & Semotics. Leiden and Boston: Brill (2025). https://www.brill.com/display/title/69690
Including co-authors:
Wittgenstein’s Secret Diaries: Semiotic Writing in Cryptography. London: Bloomsbury Academic (2020). https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wittgensteins-secret-diaries-9781350011878/
From Mimetic Translation to Artistic Transduction: A Semiotic Perspective on Virginia Woolf, Hector Berlioz, and Bertolf Brecht. London and New York: Anthem Press, 2023. ISBN-13: 93998-908-7 and ISBN-10: 1-83998-908-4. https://anthempress.com/from-mimetic-translation-to-artistic-transduction-hb
Paraphrase or Parasite? The Semiotic Stories of Translation in Chinese Semiotic Studies (2020) 16 (1): 1-46. DOI: 10.1515/css-2020-00001
Broken and Unbroken Symbols [Obituary of George Steiner]. American Book Review (2020) 42(1): 35-36. https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/467
Linguïculture: Thomas A. Sebeok as a revolutionary ethnographer in Chinese Semiotic Studies (2021) 17(4): 525-550. DOI: 10.1515/css-2021-2034
Sign, Semiology, Structuralism in Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism, Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Zahi Zalloua, eds. New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2022: 256-264
Hidden Signs? Postcritique to Solomon Marcus’ Final Article. Studii si Cercetari Linguistice(Academia Romana, Bucharest) 1(LXXIV): 91-107 (2023).
Vision and Revision of Semiotranslation in Dialogues with Peeter Torop. Festschrift in Honor of Peeter Torop’s 75th Birthday, Maarja Ojamaa, Elin Sütiste, Katalin Kroó, eds. Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2025: 238-254.
2016 Mouton d’Or Award Semiotica of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS)
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