sign music society vienna c l l f o r p p e r s sign music society transdisciplinary colloquium march organize institute socio semiotic study isss vienna cooperation mediacult vienna keyword field involve semiotic music musical signification music communication music society semiotic musicology literary study media study theatre study cultural study invitation abstract please send suggestion until december form abstract max line indicate author s name title lecture relevant address office home technical coordinate fax phone email etc lecture exceed minute minute discussion please direct letter fax email message isss reply within day congress language english german institut fur sozio semiotische studien isss jeff bernard waltergasse wien phone fax email glorium withalm uniak ac introductory remark colloquium announce term intensive discussion major feature meet intend convene scholar semiotic general musical semiotic particular many discipline musicology sociology psychology ethnology philosophy communication study media study cultural study literary study comparative study relate field our goal investigate theoretical especially practical problem musical signification type music platform enable inter transdisciplinary exchange discussion shall provide semiotic e theory sign while aim describe examine social relevance musical production distribution consumption indicate formula sign music society ask focus field pragmatic sociosemiotic musical communication context dependence shall try transcend somewhat isolate position musicology musical aesthetics musical theory within humanities e show even problem study musical structure musical form technical system musical signification musical aesthetics indispensably link sociopractical feature condition mean music cannot fully examine understand without account syntactosemantic pragmatic dimension view one cannot neglect either musical mean often unfold composite sign system word music dance film musical theatre form art feast liturgy ritual etc different media disc tape broadcast av media even electronic media latter point stress problem musical reproduction detach original performance space influence change musical mean stress moreover problem disposal cultural economical hegemony sociality music musical signification become central interest appear question historicity much term traditional history music indicator particularly presenttime cultural social sociological medial technological etc change word diachronic viewpoint hitherto main focus musical semiotic important many respects even important study musical mean synchronic one examination code need complement thorough investigation code change include presupposition consequence framework want invite scholar over world join us discuss question musical semiosis text representation function impact communication experience relate topic viewpoint sociality historicity has ever day music die famous lyric once claim special information one section particular topic austrian music organize our partner mediacult international research institute medium communication cultural development publication result colloquium publish either special issue one our journal s european journal semiotic study semiotische berichte depend final size book our series s addenda semiotic study expect welcome heartily vienna jeff bernard director isss secr gen iass jeff bernard iassais secretary general institute socio semiotic study isss waltergasse a vienna austrium phone fax e mail glorium withalm uniak ac th iassais congress technical university dresden http www tudresden de sulifg semiotic call paper iassais homepage http vhf mshpari fr escom abe aisindex html 