The concept of (self-)censorship from the semiotic perspective
The concept of (self-)censorship from the semiotic perspective

Summary/Abstract: Censorship is defined as an information regulation mechanism, but it can be described via different parameters, actors, criteria and metalanguages. It can be analysed as a sign process from diachronic, synchronical and achronical aspects. When dissecting the concept of ‘censorship’ from a semiotic point of view, it may useful to use some connected semiotic concepts like self and other, private and public sphere, self-description, self-regulation, semiosphere, borders, political and ideological discourse ideology, identity mechanism, collective memory, among others. This article tries to focus on a (re)definition of the notion of ‘censorship’ from a semiotic point of view, taking as a background system the Soviet Union’s totalitarian society. This results in a type of semiosis, or sign action process, regulating symbolic production with more or less intensity.

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