Sémir Badir is a Senior Research Associate of the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research–FNRS at the University of Liège. His essays have focused on epistemological aspects of linguistic and semiotic theories. His project is of an epistemology which sees knowledge as a discursive practice. He authored three books: Hjelmslev (Belles–Lettres, 2000); Saussure. La langue et sa représentation (L’Harmattan, 2001); Épistémologie sémiotique. La théorie du langage de Louis Hjelmslev (Honoré Champion, 2014). He has edited about twenty books and scientific periodical issues (in Janus, Linx, Protée, Semen, Semiotica, Visible). He is co–responsible for several international research projects (with Waldir Beividas, convention WBI–CAPES 2011–2013; with Nicolas Couégnas, Driss Ablali and Erik Bertin, ANR 2014–2017).
