Defended Doctoral Theses
Most doctoral theses defended at the department of semiotics have been published in the series Dissertationes Semioticae Universitatis Tartuensis.
Editors: Peeter Torop, Kalevi Kull
University of Tartu Press
volume 35, 2021 - Tyler James Bennett, Detotalization and retroactivity: black pyramid semiotics. Supervisor: Kalevi Kull.
volume 34, 2020 - Alexandra Milyakina, Digitalization of Literary Education in the Context of Cultural Autocommunication. Supervisors: Peeter Torop, Maarja Ojamaa.
volume 33, 2020 - Tatjana Menise, Fairy tales in transmedia communication: fanfiction. Supervisor: Peeter Torop.
volume 32, 2019 - Lyudmyla Zaporozhtseva, Structural units of mass culture mythology: a cultural semiotic approach. Supervisor: Andreas Ventsel.
volume 31, 2018 - Ott Puumeister, On biopolitical subjectivity: Michel Foucaultʼs perspective on biopolitics and its semiotic aspects. Supervisors: Andreas Ventsel, Daniele Monticelli.
volume 30, 2018 - Silver Rattasepp. The human mirror: a critique of the philosophical discourse on animals from the position of multispecies semiotics. Supervisor: Timo Maran.
volume 29, 2018 - Nelly Mäekivi. The zoological garden as a hybrid environment – a (zoo)semiotic analysis. Supervisor: Timo Maran.
volume 28, 2018 - Remo Gramigna. Augustine and the study of signs and signification. Supervisor: Timo Maran.
volume 27, 2017 - Silvi Salupere. О метаязыке Юрия Лотмана: проблемы, контекст, источники (On Juri Lotman's Metalanguage: Problems, Context, and Sources). Supervisor: Irina Avramets.
volume 26, 2017 - Gleb Netchvolodov. Pictorially simplified images as machine vision design tool: semiotics approach. Supervisor: Peeter Torop.
volume 25, 2017 - Kadri Tüür. Semiotics of nature representations: on the example of nature writing. Supervisor: Kalevi Kull, Peeter Torop, Ulrike Plath.
volume 24, 2016 - Claudio Julio Rodríguez Higuera. The Place of Semantics in Biosemiotics: Conceptualization of a Minimal Model of Semiosic Capabilities. Supervisor: Kalevi Kull.
volume 23, 2016 - Mari-Liis Madisson. The Semiotic Construction of Identities in Hypermedia Environments: The Analysis of Online Communication of the Estonian Extreme Right. Supervisors: Andreas Ventsel, Indrek Ibrus.
volume 22, 2016 - Davide Weible. Exaptation: Towards a Semiotic Account of a Biological Phenomenon. Supervisor: Kalevi Kull.
volume 21, 2015 - Riin Magnus. The Semiotic Grounds of Animal Assistance: Sign Use of Guide Dogs and Their Visually Impaired Handlers. Supervisor: Kalevi Kull.
volume 20, 2015 - Tiit Remm. Sociocultural Space: Spatial Modelling and the Sociocultural World. Supervisor: Anti Randviir.
volume 19, 2015 - Maarja Ojamaa. The transmedial aspect of cultural autocommunication. Supervisor: Peeter Torop.
volume 18, 2014 - Vadim Verenitš. Semiotic models of legal argumentation. Supervisors: Mihhail Lotman, Igor Gräzin.
volume 17, 2013 - Anu Sarv. Õppejõu enesereflektsioon ja professionaalne identiteet. Supervisors: Ülle Pärli, Anu Karm.
volume 16, 2011 - Tonnessen, Morten. Umwelt transition and Uexküllian phenomenology. An ecosemiotic analysis of Norwegian wolf management. Supervisor: Kalevi Kull.
volume 15, 2011 - Lindström, Kati. Delineating Landscape Semiotics: Towards the Semiotic Study of Landscape Processes. Supervisor: Kalevi Kull.
volume 14, 2011 - Sõukand, Renata. Herbal landscape. Supervisor: Kalevi Kull.
volume 13, 2009 - Ventsel, Andreas. Towards semiotic theory of hegemony. Supervisor: Ülle Pärli.
volume 12, 2009 - Sütiste, Elin. Tõlke mõiste dünaamikast tõlketeaduses ja eesti tõlkeloos. Supervisor: Peeter Torop.
volume 11, 2008 - Monticelli, Daniele. Wholeness and its remainders: theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics. Supervisor: Mihhail Lotman.
volume 10, 2006 - Linnap, Peeter. Photology. Supervisor: Jelena Grigorjeva. (In Estonian).
volume 9, 2006 - Luure, Andres. Duality and sextets: a new structure of categories. Supervisor: Kalevi Kull.
volume 8, 2005 - Rudakovskaja-Borissova, Eleonora. Semiotics of Food in the Works by Andrei Platonov. Supervisor: Ülle Pärli. (In Russian).
volume 7, 2005 - Maran, Timo. Mimicri as a Communication Semiotic Phenomenon. Supervisor: Kalevi Kull.
volume 6, 2004 - Randviir, Anti. Mapping the World: Towards a Sociosemiotic Approach to Culture. Supervisor: Peeter Torop.
volume 5, 2003 - Levchenko, Jan. History and Fiction in V. Shklovsky's and B. Eikhenbaum's works in the 1920s. Supervisor: Peeter Torop. (In Russian).
volume 4, 2001 - Avramets, Irina. The Poetics of Dostoevsky's Novellas. Supervisor: Juri Lotman. (In Russian).
volume 3, 2000 - Mikita, Valdur. A Comparison of Creativity Treatments in Semiotics and Psychology. Supervisor: Peeter Torop.
volume 2, 2000 - Grigorjeva, Elena. Emblem: Structure and Pragmatics. Supervisor: Peeter Torop. (In Russian).
volume 1, 2000 - Lotman, Mihhail. The Structure and Typology of Russian Verse.
Doctoral theses published outside of the series:
Peet Lepik (2007) Universaalidest Juri Lotmani semiootika kontekstis. Supervisor: Peeter Torop. (In Estonian, in English).
Anneli Mihkelev (2005) Vihjamise poeetika. Supervisor: Ülle Pärli.
Boris Baljasnõi (2005) Semiotic Aspect of Translation and Applied Translation Studies. Supervisor: Peeter Torop. (In Russian).
Virve Sarapik (1999) Keel ja kunst. Supervisor: Peeter Torop.