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Social Semiotics is a journal for discourse and critique and is published four times a year.

Contributions are welcome and should be sent to Social Semiotics, School of Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, Bute Building, King Edward VII Ave, Cardiff CF10 3NB, Fax 029 2023 8832; E-mail: socialsemiotics@Cardiff.ac.uk. We welcome different theoretical approaches and we encourage papers which bring theory and practice together to challenge one another. Papers should be dedicated to exploring the economy of signs in the contemporary social formation. Analyses of the everyday and of the quotidian sociopolitical significance of representations will be particularly welcome. If submitting in hard copy papers should not normally be longer than 6-8000 words. Two copies should be submitted, double spaced on one side of A4 only.

Final and revised versions of papers should also be submitted on disk if possible, but the hard copy version must exactly match the one on disk. Separate guidelines for preparing manuscripts on disk are available here.

Tables and captions to illustrations. Tables should be typed on separate sheets and not included as part of the text. The captions to illustrations should be gathered together and printed on a separate sheet. The approximate position of tables, figures and illustrations should be indicated in the manuscript. Footnotes should be avoided.

Figures. Please supply one set of artwork in a finished form, suitable for reproduction. Figures will not normally be redrawn by the publisher. Photographs and other visual materials should be in high-contrast black and white glossy print. Permission to reproduce them must be obtained by the author(s) and acknowledgements included in the paper.

If non-referencing footnotes are essential, please position these at the end of the paper. Please let us know whether, if your article is accepted, you will be able to provide it on a Macintosh disk, preferably using Word 5.

Illustrations. Permission to use illustrations must be sought from the copyright holder prior to submission of the paper. Permission must be granted in writing and accompany the illustration supplied by the author. Acknowledgement of source and copyright should be given in the caption. The desired position and size of the illustration should be indicated within the manuscript (e.g. <insert figure 1, size: half page, caption>).

Tables, figures, illustrations and photographs with captions should be electronically supplied in a separate file with the paper. Resolution should be no less than 300 dpi and saved as a black and white Tif file (Jpeg compresses the image too much).

Proofs. Page proofs will be sent to you for marking of typographical errors. Alterations of subject matter at proof stage are inadmissible beyond a strictly limited extent.

Free article access: Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk

All papers published in Social Semiotics are refereed.

Copyright.  It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.