Roland Posner

Roland Posner (30 June 1942 in Prague – 26 May 2020 in Berlin) was a German semiotician and linguist.

He was Professor of Technische Universität Berlin since 1974.

He was editor-in-chief of the ''Zeitschrift für Semiotik'' and an editor of a major 4-volume handbook in semiotics. He was the President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies in 1994–2004. He was one of founders of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Provided by Wikipedia