Preface

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Preface IX
4. People
5. Halliday as Semiotician 3
6. Alexander Bryan Johnson (1786–1867): The First Linguistic Philosopher 31
7. The Semiotics of Lévi-Strauss: Translation as Communication 61
8. The Semiotics of Luis Jorge Prieto 89
9. Semiotics and Art: The Contribution of Mieczysław Wallis (1895–1975) 109
10. Places
11. Brazil: A Culture in Tune with Semiotics 123
12. Semiotics in Colombia: Within New Perspectives 177
13. Semiotics in Peru 1980–1988 195
14. Semiotics in Romania 221
15. Semiotics in the United States 275
16. Topics
17. Meaning, Subject, and Reality as Semiotic Foci of Political Research 399
18. The Rediscovery of the Audience in Television Studies 447
19. Semiotics and Mass Communication Research: Key Intersections 471
20. Psychoanalysis and Semiotics: A Retrospect 531
21. Psychosemiotics 547
22. Semiotic Approaches to Figurative Narration 587
23. The Semiotics of Clothing: Linking Structural Analysis with Social Process 605
24. A Semiotic Approach to Product Forms 625
25. Bacterial (Prokaryotic) Communication 639
26. Photography and Semiotics 663
27. Signs Before Speech 689
28. Meetings
29. Report of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America 759
30. Seven Finnish-Hungarian Semiotic Symposia (1985–89) 775
31. Index 779
32. 799-800 799