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The 5th Annual Lotman Days conference entitled "Text and Audience" will be held in Tallinn University from 31 May to 2 June 2013. The conference is dedicated to Yuri Lotman, a semiotician and culturologist.

This year’s conference is inspired by Lotman’s seminal paper, "The Text and the Structure of Its Audience". The intention is to revive Lotman’s ideas about text as a generator of meanings, to discuss the communicative and
pragmatic aspects of text, and new methods of text analysis.The agenda includes the following issues: - Pragmatic and socio-cultural criteria of differentiation between "text" and "non-text";- Text as a fundamentally heterogeneous, multilingual and poly-semantic object;- Text and its readers; the reader’s active role in the disclosure of the text’s
semantic potential; text in the communication process, problems of interpretation; - Text as a dynamic object (a "self-augmenting Logos"): a triad "text – culture – semiosphere".

The conference will include panels in Russian and English. Each speaker is allotted thirty minutes (20 minutes
for delivery and 10 minutes for discussion).

The Organizing Committee of the 5th Annual Lotman Days conference at Tallinn University consists of: Rein
Raud (Chair), Tatjana Kuzovkina, Mihhail Lotman, Piret Peiker, Igor Pilshchikov, Mikhail Trunin (Secretary).

For further information please contact:

Piret Peiker
Tallinn University Estonian Institute of Humanities
E-mail: piretpeiker@hotmail.com