Introduction (RESONANCE: A POWERFUL CONCEPT BUILDING A BRIDGE BETWEEN DISCIPLINES)

The present issue of Linguistic Frontiers emanates from a Summer retreat—hosted by Prof. Ľudmila Lacková Bennett and Eugenio Israel Chávez Barreto at Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic (July 22–28, 2024)— inspired by the fascinating, polysemic, and ambiguous notion of resonance, understood through semiotics. Observed in physics, the phenomenon of resonance—the quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating, especially with regard to the idea of extending vibrations to a neighbouring object—served as a metaphorical lens through which the semiotic processes of meaning-making can be understood. In this epistemic perspective, meaning cannot fail to be intersubjective, thus dialogical; whence, the focus of many papers then, now essays, on the chief communication interface available to mankind, the face-voice nexus.