Mircea Eliade had a sister, Corina, the mother of semiologist Sorin Alexandrescu. This is the dimension of what semiologist Julia Kristeva calls semiotics itself. Augusto Ponzio (born 17 February 1942) is an Italian semiologist and philosopher. Jean Molino is professeur ordinaire at the University of Lausanne and a semiologist. Her mother, Hermine de Saussure, was Swiss, and the niece of linguist/semiologist Ferdinand de Saussure.