Signs and Society Vol. 13, No. 1, March 2025
Table of Contents
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1. The Political Uses of Semiotic Indeterminacy
Ilana Gershon
Rice University, USA
pp. 1–8
2. Revisiting the Strategically Deployable Shifter: Manipulating Indeterminacy for Semiotic Power and Profit
Bonnie Urciuoli
Hamilton College, USA
pp. 9–24
3. “It Was Supposed to Be an Internship”: The Consequences of Semiotic Ambiguity for Labor and Learning in the New Economy
Matthew Wolfgram and Jonathan Larson
Wisconsin Center for Educational Research University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
pp. 25-42
4. “How Will I Know?”: Semiotic Indeterminacy, Transparency, and Expectations of Sincerity in the Global Nuclear Order
Anna Weichselbraun
Universität Wien, Austria
pp. 43–59
5. Absurdities of Indeterminacy: Swastikas and Playing with the Token-Type Relationship
Elana Resnick
University of California Santa Barbara, USA
pp. 60–77
6. Religious Intolerance and the Semiotics of Secular Indeterminacy in Brazil
Elina Inkeri Hartikainen
University of Oslo, Norway
pp. 78–101
7. Semiotic Determinacy: Sovereign Citizens’ Approach to Legal Language
Joshua Babcock, Amy Cohen and Ilana Gershon
Brown University, USA
Temple University, USA
Rice University, USA
pp. 102–121



