Fernando Torres Andacht is a Uruguayan-born semiotician.
Andacht studied Letters at the University of the Republic, graduating in 1978. Afterwards he obtained an MA in General Linguistics at Ohio University (1981), a Doctorate in Latin American Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway (1998) and a PhD in Communication and Information, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (2001). Currently he is a Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Ottawa.[1]
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