This special issue for Semiotic Review, entitled "Dialogues between Continental Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology" and edited by Dr Tatsuma Padoan (SENSA Lab, Study of Religions Department, UCC) with Prof Constantine V. Nakassis (Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago), aims at creating a dialogue between Linguistic Anthropology in North America and Continental Semiotics in Europe and South America by exploring common themes and possible points of convergence.