Fernando Andacht

Fernando Torres Andacht is a Uruguayan-born semanticist.

Career

Andacht studied linguistics at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, graduating in 1978. Afterwards, he obtained an MA in General Linguistics at Ohio University (1981), a Doctorate in Latin American Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway (1998) and a PhD in Communication and Information at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (2001). Currently, he is a Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Ottawa.

Notable works

• El reality show: una perspectiva analítica. Buenos Aires: Grupo Editorial Norma. 2003. p. 139.
• Entre signos de asombro: antimanual para iniciarse en la semiótica. Montevideo: Ediciones Trilce. 1993. p. 200.
• En la cocina del sentido: Análisis semiótico de la comunicación política en las internas uruguayas 2014. Montevideo: Editorial Fin de siglo. 2014. p. 166.
• A Semiotic Reflection on Selfinterpretation and Identity
• A Semiotic Framework for the Social Imaginary
• On the Relevance of the Imagination in the Semiotic of C. S. Peirce

External links

• "An interview with Fernando Andacht". Semanario Voces. Retrieved 9 June 2014. (in Spanish)
• https://nevermore.media/fernando-andacht/