Each episode invites a guest to choose a sign and to think aloud about its meaning, form, and interpretation.

sign(e)s

sign(e)s

Episodes

Ordnance survey map by Jean-Marie Klinkenberg

Australian Road Sign by Ghil’ad Zuckermann

The ‘W’ hand gesture by Dara Theodora

Three white lines by Enzo d’Armenio

Kaleidoscopic Eye by Brendan Graham Fraser

Myth by Santiago Guillén Rozo

Greenham Common Webs by Anna Feigenbaum

Women dancing at Greenham common. Photo (c) Raissa Page

Scare Quotes by Johannes Angermuller

Y par Nicolas Pommier

i par Sophia Burnett

a lowercase i the size of a house. (c) Burnett/Narr.2026.
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About the host

Dr Sophia Burnett is PhD in language sciences from CY Cergy Paris and qualifiée section 7 du Conseil National des Universités. Associate Professor of English at Wenzhou Business College, China, she is deeply interested in signs, how they come to be imbued with meaning, and how that meaning is shared.

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