New books on semiotics

the Institute of Slavic Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences).The authors describe the major aims of the semiotic project which are coordinated with the centennial jubilee of Jury M. Lotman (2022) and are designed to evaluate the role of the semiotics and its place in the contemporary academic studies.Sergey Zenkin in his article "Semiosis and mimesis" notes that mimesis quite often serves as a means of communication between people or animals, and it should be compared with other forms of communication, based upon exchange of signs.He revises the very notion of mimesis and suggests that the mimesis of representation (artistic or not) should be replaced by a mimesis of communication between two or more independent subjects.The author outlines the differences between mimetic and semiotic types of communication.Igor Pilshchikov dedicates his article "'System' and structure' as terms and concepts (Shpet -Tynianov -Jakobson -Lotman)" to the study of the evolution of the corresponding terms as applied to literature and art by the Russian formalists and some of subsequent structuralist theorists from the 1920s to the 1980s.Yuri Tynianov's, Gustav Shpet's, Grigorii Vinokur's and Roman