This workshop seeks to advance research based on a semiotic framework. Presentations will come from a variety of fields including, but not limited to linguistics, psychology, sociology, political science, literary theory, history, and anthropology. The workshop thus does not seek to limit its topics of research by area, period, or discipline, thereby providing an eminently suitable forum for wide-ranging discussions and conceptualizations regarding the study of social and cultural phenomena as embedded in meaningful contexts. Building on various seminal studies that have used semiotic approaches, the goal of the workshop is to continue to develop and finesse rigorous analytic frameworks that provide the methods for clearly defining linkages between the object of analysis and its context.