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Peeter Torop
Peeter Torop (born November 28, 1950 in Tallinn, Estonia) is an Estonian semiotician. Following Roman Jakobson, he expanded the scope of the semiotic study of translation to include intratextual, intertextual, and extratextual translation and stressing the productivity of the notion of translation in general semiotics. He is a co-editor of the journal Sign Systems Studies, the oldest international semiotic periodical, the chairman of the Estonian Semiotics Association and professor of semiotics of culture at Tartu University.
He is known in translation studies
Kalevi. "Juri Lotman in English." Sign Systems Studies 39.2/4 (2011): 343-356.
- Sonesson, Göran. "Between homeworld and alienworld: A primer of cultural semiotics." Sign Culture= Zeichen Kultur (2012): 315-328.
- Schleiner, Louise. Cultural Semiotics, Spenser, and the Captive Woman. Lehigh University Press, 1995.
- Torop, Peeter. "Cultural semiotics and culture." (1999).
- Torop, Peeter. "Semiotics in