This collection brings together perspectives on the interplay of communication, dialogue and responsibility, exploring communicative acts of disruption towards a social environment attuned to short-sighted individualism.

Susan Petrilli is a Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy.

Susan Mancino is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Saint Mary's University, USA.

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction: The ethical dimension as the I-other intrigue

Susan Petrilli, Augusto Ponzio and Susan Mancino

Part I: Alterity, infunctionality, and semioethics

1. The right to infunctionality: The foundation of social relations outside the trap of identity

Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio

2. Experience, dialogue, and ethics: Peircean reflections on dialogical ethics

Vincent Colapietro

3. Vico, common sense, communication: Recommendations for a semioethics program

Frank Nuessel

Part II: Relation and communication as orientation toward the other

4. Relational logic and semioethics: A Peircean approach

Elize Bisanz

5. The voice as a hero of dialogue: Reading Bakhtin alongside Peirce

Deborah Eicher-Catt

6. Codes of conduct: Signs of moral memory as symbols of ethical eloquence

Richard L. Lanigan

7. Veneration of semioethical imagination: Wavering between the good and evil of De-sign

Farouk Y. Seif

Part III: Gifting, caring and semioethics

8. The gift of the unilateral gift: The epigenetic origins of semioethics

Genevieve Vaughan

9. A womanist ethic of care and semioethics: Shared ethical and moral expression

Annette D. Madlock

10. Semioethics as an axiology of care for the self-other: A Welbian geneology

Zoe Hurley

Part IV: Listening in dialogic relation

11. Dialogues with and about the past: Semioethics of remembering and forgetting in a digital age

Susan Mancino

12. Semioethical dimensions in leisure: Deepening fialogic capacities

Annette M. Holba

13. Semioethic listening and engagement in 'the 15-Minute City'

Ionut Untea

14. Linguistic relativity: Semioethics and climate change denialism

Marcel Danesi

Part V: Dialogue, responsibility, and love

15. Powerful sacred signs: A semioethical approach to the laying on of hands in the sacrament of reconciliation

Fernando López-Arias and Jordi Pujol

16. St. Catherine of Siena: Semioethics-responsive communication

Christina L. McDowell

17. Pope Francis's semioethical 'net' work: An approach for dialogical conversion

Christopher J. Oldenburg

Index