Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. People
5. The Semiotics of Edwin Ardener 1
6. Sign and Spirit: The Semiotics of M.M. Bakhtin 17
7. The Meaning of Nonsense and the Empirical Turn: The Semiotics of Paul Bouissac 41
8. The Semiotics of Pierre Guiraud 53
9. The Semiotics of Cesare Segre 71
10. René Thorn's Semiotics: An Application to the Pathological Limitations of Semiosis 91
11. Jakob von Uexkiill's Umwelt-Theory 129
12. Places
13. Semiotic Vignettes: France, 1987 161
14. Semiotics in Iceland 181
15. Semiotics in Nigeria 187
16. Semiology in Vietnam 197
17. Topics
18. Semiotics and Medicine 215
19. Toward a Semiotics of Old Age 271
20. Semiotics of Rhetoric: The Consumption of Fantasy 301
21. Cine-semiotics 333
22. Semiotics and Artificial Intelligence 353
23. Low on RAM: The Semiotics of Computing 369
24. Semiotics and Marxism 387
25. Meeting
26. ISISSS '88: University of British Columbia, August 2-26 417
27. Index 421
28. Backmatter 429