Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents XIII
4. Section 1: Semiotic epistemologies
5. Welcome to Semiosistan! 1
6. Beyond teleonomy: Towards a biology of semiotic realism 13
7. Risky heuristics 39
8. The semiotic inquirer and the practice of empirical inquiry 59
9. Transdisciplinarity as a solution to the challenges of the contemporary world 75
10. Section 2: Contemporary schools of theoretical semiotics
11. Notes towards a semiotic theory of learning 87
12. Scarcity and meaning: Towards a semiotics of economic transaction 111
13. Applied ecosemiotics: Ontological basis and conceptual models 129
14. The anthropological dimension of Greimas’ narrative semiotics 151
15. What happens? The Zemic model in existential semiotics 169
16. Section 3: Applications and practical discussions
17. Intermedial narrative as communication media: Imagination, narrative, and selfhood from Peirce’s semiotic perspective 205
18. Icons of modernity in belle époque Bucharest 227
19. Glimpses into Peircean event imaging: Episode-simulation as a scaffold for right-guessing 249
20. Development of agency as semiotic empowerment: A Peircean analysis 273
21. On the corposphere: Body, eroticism and pornography 299
22. Natural and cultural layers in the discursive becoming of language as a semiotic system 311
23. Index 337