¿This contributed volume gives access to semiotic researches adopting a quantitative stance.
European semiotics is traditionally based on immanent methodologies: meaning is seen as an
autonomous dimension of human existence whose laws can be investigated via purely qualitative
analytical and reflexive analysis. Today researches crossing disciplinary boundaries reveal
the limitations of such an homogeneous practice. In particular two families of quantitative
research strategies can be identified. On the one hand researchers wish to naturalize meaning
by making semiotic results interact with those coming from Neurophysiological and psychological
sciences. On the other hand statistical and computational tools are adopted to work on
linguistic and multimedia corpora. The book acts to put the two approaches into dialogue.
